An Agentic AI Framework to Accelerate Scientific Discovery in Plant Phenotyping

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31831v1
• Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:37:02 GMT
• Title: An Agentic AI Framework to Accelerate Scientific Discovery in Plant Phenotyping
• Abstract summary: We present an end-to-end agentic AI framework that turns a data factory into an interactive discovery platform.<n>A conversational Co-Scientist Agent translates a scientist's natural-language question into a structured analysis plan.<n>A headless Compute Agent dispatches Vision Transformer segmentation and trait extraction on the Frontier exascale supercomputer.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: High-throughput plant phenotyping now generates image derived datasets far faster than scientists can analyze them. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory (APPL), automated stations image hundreds of plants daily across multiple remote sensing modalities; yet, trait extraction and interpretation remain manual, expert-bound, and strictly post-hoc, making analysis, not acquisition, the binding constraint on discovery. We present an end-to-end agentic AI framework that turns the facility from a data factory into an interactive autonomous, discovery platform, where scientists partner with AI agents to accelerate time to insight. A conversational Co-Scientist Agent translates a scientist's natural-language question into a structured analysis plan, and a headless Compute Agent dispatches Vision Transformer segmentation and trait extraction on the Frontier exascale supercomputer. The two agents run in separate security and resource domains and communicate over a secure, token-authenticated streaming channel, a design that accounts for the federation, data-movement, and provenance realities cloud-native agentic frameworks ignore, ensuring end-to-end provenance is captured for every interaction. The framework turns a days- to weeks-long analysis process into an interactive loop where agents reason over results, recommend next analyses, and respond to follow-up questions in seconds.

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