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Research
Latest papers
Decoding nitrogen uptake efficiency in maize and sorghum: insights from comparative gene regulatory networks.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2025
WUSCHEL-D1 upregulation enhances grain number by inducing formation of multiovary-producing florets in wheat.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
Guard cell and whole plant expression of AtTOR improves performance under drought and enhances water use efficiency.
The Journal of biological chemistry · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $35,000
Designing Climate Adaptive Canola for Mitigation, Resiliency and Food Security
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $688,685
Food-Water Nexus Education & Training
NSERC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $250,000
Use of deep learning to accelerate the underground agricultural revolution: Designing root system architectures that improve crop resilience to climate change
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
10 publications.
Decoding nitrogen uptake efficiency in maize and sorghum: insights from comparative gene regulatory networks.
Braynen J, Zhang L, Kumari S, Olson A, Kumar V, Regulski M, Liseron-Monfils C, Gaudinier A, Bågman AM, Abbitt S, Frank MJ, Shen B, Kochian L, Brady SM, Ware D
WUSCHEL-D1 upregulation enhances grain number by inducing formation of multiovary-producing florets in wheat.
Schoen A, Yoshikawa GV, Sharma PK, Mahlandt A, Chen Y, Sheng H, Kochian L, Gao P, Xiang D, Quilichini TD, Venglat P, Wang S, Yadav IS, Sablowski R, Wang Y, Zhang P, Whibley A, Hill A, Gu Y, Rodriguez-Leal D, Luo W, Qi Y, Meier N, Kajla A, Willman M, Brown-Guedira G, Simpson SA, Youngblood RC, Hulse-Kemp A, Murphy A, Gill B, Uauy C, Datla R, Rawat N, Boden SA, Tiwari V
Guard cell and whole plant expression of AtTOR improves performance under drought and enhances water use efficiency.
Liu L, Gao P, Sheng H, Bakshi A, Schneider D, Xiang D, Babic V, Ren M, Burbridge C, Nguyen H, Wang S, Armenta-Medina A, Mora-Macias J, Sharpe A, Pozniak C, Magalhaes J, Datla R, Kochian L
IMP2RIS, an automated plant root PET radiotracer gas delivery system for in-soil visualization of symbiotic N2 fixation in nodulated roots of soybean plants via PET imaging.
Nakhforoosh A, Hallin E, Wang Z, Hogue M, Mehlhorn HH, Tingstad G, Kochian L
Genetic loci associated with sorghum drought tolerance in multiple environments and their sensitivity to environmental covariables.
Bernardino KDC, Guilhen JHS, de Menezes CB, Tardin FD, Schaffert RE, Bastos EA, Cardoso MJ, Gazaffi R, Rosa JRBF, Garcia AAF, Guimarães CT, Kochian L, Pastina MM, Magalhaes JV
Visualization and Quantitative Evaluation of Functional Structures of Soybean Root Nodules via Synchrotron X-ray Imaging.
Nakhforoosh A, Hallin E, Karunakaran C, Korbas M, Stobbs J, Kochian L
Dynamic transcriptome analysis unravels key regulatory genes of maize root growth and development in response to potassium deficiency.
Guo S, Liu Z, Sheng H, Olukayode T, Zhou Z, Liu Y, Wang M, He M, Kochian L, Qin Y
Explainable deep learning in plant phenotyping.
Mostafa S, Mondal D, Panjvani K, Kochian L, Stavness I
Iterative image segmentation of plant roots for high-throughput phenotyping.
Seidenthal K, Panjvani K, Chandnani R, Kochian L, Eramian M
Sorghum root epigenetic landscape during limiting phosphorus conditions.
Gladman N, Hufnagel B, Regulski M, Liu Z, Wang X, Chougule K, Kochian L, Magalhães J, Ware D
Designing Climate Adaptive Canola for Mitigation, Resiliency and Food Security
Principal investigators: Kochian, Leon V
Keywords: canola; carbon assimilation; carbon footprint; climate change; droight resistance; GHG emission; nutrient use efficiency; photosynthetic efficiency; root system architecture; water use efficiency
Food-Water Nexus Education & Training
Principal investigators: Helgason, Warren WD
Keywords: decisions and food-water policy; fate; food security; nutrient stewardship; plant-root-soil interaction; precision farming practices and crop; remote sensing and soil mapping; water security; water stewardship
Use of deep learning to accelerate the underground agricultural revolution: Designing root system architectures that improve crop resilience to climate change
Principal investigators: Kochian, Leon
Keywords: crop resilience agricultural sustainability root system architecture high-throughput root imaging climate change drought tolerance wheat deep learning machine learning latent variable models
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Food Systems and Security
Principal investigators: Kochian, Leon
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Food Systems and Security
Principal investigators: Kochian, Leon
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Food Systems and Security
Principal investigators: Kochian, Leon
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Ian Stavness and Debajyoti Mondal: 2 shared papers
- Ian Stavness and Mark Eramian: 2 shared papers
- Chithra Karunakaran and Leon Kochian: 1 shared paper
- Leon Kochian and Ian Stavness: 1 shared paper
- Leon Kochian and Debajyoti Mondal: 1 shared paper
- Leon Kochian and Mark Eramian: 1 shared paper
- Computer Science
- Plant Sciences
- Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering
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