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Taylor Tuel is a researcher at the forefront of plant phenomics and automated phenotyping, with a focus on understanding how plants respond to environmental stressors like drought. Her work centers on developing high-throughput robotic systems to bridge the gap between controlled environment studies and real-world plant performance. Tuel’s major contributions include the design and implementation of the Robotic Assay for Drought (RoAD), an automated phenotyping platform that enables rapid, precise measurement of brassinosteroid and drought responses in plants—a significant advancement over traditional low-throughput petri plate methods. She also played a key role in the Enviratron facility at Iowa State University, a cutting-edge controlled environment for assessing genotype-by-environment interactions, as highlighted in her most-cited paper (23 citations). Her research has been cited over 40 times, reflecting its growing impact on the fields of plant biology and agricultural technology. By automating complex phenotyping tasks, Tuel is accelerating the discovery of genetic and hormonal pathways that govern stress resilience, offering practical tools for developing more drought-tolerant crops.