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From left, Andrew Leakey, Jiayang (Kevin) Xie and their colleagues developed an improved method for analyzing features of plant leaves that contribute to water-use efficiency in crops like corn, sorghum (pictured) and Setaria. They used advanced statistical approaches to identify regions of the genome and lists of genes that contribute to these traits.

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