Dr. Lakshmi Attigala

EDUCATION:

  • B.S., Plant Science, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Aug 2007
  • Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, Dec 2015

EXPERIENCE:

  • Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organizational Biology, Iowa State University, Aug 2009-Dec 2015
  • Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organizational Biology, Iowa State University, Jan 2016-Apr 2016
  • Lab Manager/Research Scientist II, Schnable Lab, Apr 2016-Nov 2021

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ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7124-5617

PUBLICATIONS (4):

* Authors contributed equally to the article
  • Feng J, M Saadati, T Jubery, A Jignasu, A Balu, Y Li, L Attigala, PS Schnable, S Sarkar, B Ganapathysubramanian, A Krishnamurthy (2023) 3D reconstruction of plants using probabilistic voxel carving. Comput Electron Agric, 213: 108248.
    [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | Supplemental Materials | doi:10.1016/j.compag.2023.108248 | Impact Factor: 8.3 ]
  • Kusmec A, L Attigala, X Dai, S Srinivasan, CT Yeh, PS Schnable (2023) A genetic tradeoff for tolerance to moderate and severe heat stress in US hybrid maize. PLoS Genet, 19(7): e1010799.
    [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | Supplemental Materials | doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1010799 | PMID: 37410701 | Impact Factor: 4.5 ]
  • Zhou Y*, A Kusmec*, SV Mirnezami*, L Attigala, S Srinivasan, T Jubery, JC Schnable, MG Salas-Fernandez, B Ganapathysubramanian, PS Schnable (2021) Identification and utilization of genetic determinants of trait measurement errors in image-based, high-throughput phenotyping. Plant Cell, 33(8): 2562-2582.
    [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | Supplemental Materials | doi:10.1093/plcell/koab134 | PMID: 34015121 | Impact Factor: 12.0 ]
  • Zhou Y, S Srinivasan, SV Mirnezami, A Kusmec, Q Fu, L Attigala, MG Salas-Fernandez, B Ganapathysubramanian, PS Schnable (2019) Semiautomated feature extraction from RGB images for sorghum panicle architecture GWAS. Plant Physiol, 179(1): 24-37.
    [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | Supplemental Materials | doi:10.1104/pp.18.00974 | PMID: 30389784 | Impact Factor: 7.4 ]