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The silicon citizen naturalist
Abstract
Smartphone-wielding citizen scientists and an AI called FLORIST are transforming ecology at the continental scale. Here, in this issue of Cell, when Tibbs-Cortes et al. pair the crowdsourced data with controlled genetics, they discover how switchgrass times its flowering to outwit both frost and heat, depending on latitude.
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Hudson, Matthew E. [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)] (ORCID:0000000247370936), Battu, Gopal [DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI), Huntsville, AL (United States)] (ORCID:0000000230426518). 2026-07-23. The silicon citizen naturalist. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.07.002
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