How AI engineered crops could fight climate change [Video]

SAN DIEGO — Plants not only bring life to our planet as food, feed and fiber, they are an efficient tool when it comes to taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Now with the help of artificial intelligence, scientists are retrieving faster data to help engineer ideal plants in an effort to combat climate change.

“What we’ve now done is taken all the images and pictures that they take of the plants that are growing inside of these gels and use SLEAP to capture the structure and shape of those plant root systems,” said Talmo Pereira, PhD, Principal Investigator at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

It is spelled S-L-E-A-P and stands for Social LEAP Estimates Animal Poses. It was initially designed to track animal movement in the …