This article was originally featured on Undark. In a field near the Dutch village of Angeren, a biotechnology company named Solynta grows potatoes in square plots, about 16 by 13 feet each. One ...

This research combines deep learning, visual question answering (VQA), and informed learning to bridge the gap between human-level understanding and machine-driven crop diagnostics. ILCD integrates a ...

The genes that could help the world's crops survive drought, heat, and disease probably already exist. But much of this ...

Unlike conventional models, ChatLD relies solely on textual descriptions of disease symptoms, achieving remarkable accuracy (88.9%) in classifying six tomato diseases. This innovation opens the door ...

Eva Stukenbrock is a professor and head of the Environmental Genomics group at Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany, and fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).

UC Davis and Chinese scientists have found a way to create disease-resistant rice with high yields. (Zhudifeng/Getty Images photo) Researchers from the University of California, Davis, and an ...

In plants, the space between cells is a key battleground during infection. To avoid recognition in this space, a strain of the bacterial tomato disease Pseudomonas syringae manipulates plants by ...

As U.S. farmers continue to battle broadleaf weeds and grasses increasingly difficult to control, companies have been on a quest to identify solutions. But finding and bringing new modes of action ...

Nobody really knows how the fungus Bipolaris maydis got into the cornfields of the United States. But by summer of 1970, it was there with a vengeance, inflicting a disease called southern corn leaf ...

Patrick Schnable and his son, James, stand in a field of proso millet, a drought-resistant crop whose yield they are working to increase. Credit: Patrick Schnable The Western family (Todd Western III ...