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PlantScience.ai: An LLM-Powered Virtual Scientist for Plant Science

Yu, H.; Zhou, S.; Huang, M.; Ding, L.; Chen, Y.; Wang, Y.; Ren, Y.; Cheng, N.; Wang, X.; Liang, J.; The John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory Collaboration, ; Zhang, H.; Ding, Y.; Li, K.

2025-10-28 plant biology
10.1101/2025.10.24.684337 bioRxiv
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The accelerating growth of plant science literature presents a major challenge for researchers seeking to extract accurate, up-to-date knowledge from an increasingly fragmented and domain-specific corpus. General-purpose large language models (LLMs), while powerful, often misinterpret plant science terminology and lack mechanisms for source traceability. We created PlantScience.ai, a virtual plant biology scientist powered by our automated scientific knowledge graph construction pipeline (AutoSKG). PlantScience.ai exhibits expert-level reasoning in plant biology and maintains scholarly rigour in its citations. Through continuous learning, it integrates the latest research, ensuring that its knowledge base remains current and scientifically robust. Apart from providing the answers to the scientific questions, PlantScience.ai can interact with human scientists, follow instructions, and retrieve information with citation awareness, grounding each response in primary sources to ensure accuracy and verifiability. PlantScience.ai marks a pivotal advance toward a collaborative scientific paradigm in which virtual and human plant scientists work synergistically to accelerate discovery while preserving the unique value of human insight. PlantScience.ai is available at https://plantscience.ai.

Published in Molecular Plant (predicted rank #6) · training set

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