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Somashekhar M. Punnuri

Fort Valley State UniversityORCID 0000-0002-4542-4160Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Research Focus:genome assembly· 1 Assay:imaging· 1 Organism:plant (other)· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Plant BiologybioRxivPreprintSep 22, 2026

Embeddings from standardized sorghum leaf images capture variation in disease response that human scoring misses

Jensina M. Davis, Jonathan Turkus, Sofiya Arora…·James C. Schnable

The paper uses standardized leaf imaging and vision encoders to capture disease response variation missed by human scoring, identifying genomic hotspots linked to disease symptoms.

DOI 10.64898/2026.09.21.753202

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Plant BiologybioRxivPreprintFeb 23, 2026

Development and evaluation of a cost-effective, mid-density SNP array as a sorghum community genotyping resource

Vivek Kumar, Robert R. Klein, Benjamin Kaufman…·Doreen Ware

The paper develops and validates a mid-density SNP array for sorghum using NGS, showing it performs as well as high-density GBS for trait prediction and breeding applications.

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