Troy Magney
Assistant Professor of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
Researcher
Troy is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis.
Troy's lab seeks to better understand plant systems through the lens of remote sensing and environmental data science. This work is largely interdisciplinary and combines the fields of plant ecophysiology, ecosystem ecology, biophysics, optics, statistical, and computer science.
He develops instruments and methods for mapping vegetation structure and function at the leaf, tower, airborne, and satellite scales. This includes optical sensors that measure vegetation reflectance, thermal emission, and solar-induced fluorescence (SIF). His work spans types of plants across all scales – from agricultural applications (i.e., water and nutrient use efficiencies) to managed and unmanaged ecosystems (i.e., CO2 uptake, productivity, stress).
Project Involvement
Developing an AI-Enabled Toolkit for Routine Integration of Quality Traits into Molecular Breeding Strategies
AI-Enabled and Compound-Driven Toolkit for Molecular Breeding, Nutritional Quality, Aroma, Flavor and Health Traits
