"Farmers cannot manually check." Researchers develop radical new solution to detect major threat to crops: '[Guides] farmers to the exact location' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Dealing with extreme weather damages in your vegetable crops? Learn how to tell the difference between weather-related injury and disease symptoms.

In a special test vineyard in New York State, you may spot an unusual sight: tall, boxy robots with rugged tires patrolling the cultivated rows, moving autonomously thanks to onboard GPS. As they ...

Photographic examples of a plant disease dataset. (a) Balck rot; (b) Northern leaf blight; (c) Isariopsis leaf spot; (d) Brown spot. Researchers have made significant progress in the field of ...

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has introduced an early detection technology known as ‘Spore Smart ...

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 ...

Corn seedlings with roots exteriors falling off, a symptom of Pythium. Pythium is a pathogen that lives in soil and often wreaks havoc on row-crop operations. The disease causes about $25 million in ...

As climate pressure mounts, new platforms tackle delivery, regulation, trait stacking, and data bottlenecks limiting agricultural genome editing.

No matter how you scout your crops, be systematic and thorough. Focus on the central areas of the fields rather than field edges and check areas where weed and disease pressure have been problems in ...