Juan I. Di Salvo, who, as a graduate student at Iowa State University, participated in NAMA Millets Webinars in 2023 and 2025, let us know about his recent article publication: Di Salvo JI, Joshi S, Hadadi M, Jubery T, Sarkar S, Singh A, Ganapathysubramanian B, Archontoulis S, Krishnamurthy A and Singh AK (2026) "Phenological growth stages of Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.)) using 3-D phenotyping with relevance to breeding applications." Frontiers in Plant Science. 17:1747707. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2026.1747707 It is based on the second chapter of his master's thesis on phenological stages of finger millet. This is an important contribution to understanding finger millet growth stages, and to the application of 3D visualization in plant breeding work. Juan has accepted a position as a breeder assistant with GDM in Argentina. We wish him and his family well, and look forward to possible future collaboration. ABSTRACT: "Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) is a small seeded cereal known for its health benefits and its ability to grow in water-limited and saline environments. Despite its health and adaptation advantages, there is no standardized BBCH scale developed for finger millet, precluding standardization of a defined growth and development scale. The initial step in any breeding program and related research, is the precise, consistent and standardized description of crop growth stages. Therefore, we present a standardized phenological scale to describe and compare different stages of growth and development. In this study, we used four-finger millet accessions from the U.S.D.A. National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) collection. Using a standardized BBCH chart as the baseline, we describe nine main stages of development to provide a simplified and user-friendly phenological growth staging scale for finger millet. A novel feature of this study was the use of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) to generate three-dimensional (3-D) renderings that align growth stages with 3-D imaging, paving the way for future phenological staging studies to incorporate 3-D visualization as a tool for standardization, researcher training, and reduction of observer bias across environments." Don Osborn, PhD (East Lansing, MI, US - +1 202-621-3911) North American Millets Alliance