Plants’ Double-Headed Defenders: How Multifunctional Enzyme Inhibitors Could Reshape Crop Protection
A new review in Plant Molecular Biology defines plant multifunctional inhibitors as a distinct class of double-headed defense proteins and ...
Tag: crop protection
AI Transformer Hits 98% Accuracy Spotting Jute Pests Before They Devastate Crops
Researchers in India have developed a hierarchical feature fusion transformer that identifies seventeen jute pest species with 98.43 percent accuracy, ...
AI That Shows Its Work: Explainable Deep Learning Spots Crop Pests in Real Time
Researchers have unveiled an explainable deep learning framework that detects insect crop pests in real time with up to 98 ...
Algae Could Be the Next Big Weapon Against Crop Pests and Pathogens
A comprehensive review finds that bioactive compounds from microalgae, cyanobacteria, and seaweeds can kill insects, nematodes, fungi, bacteria, viruses, and ...
RNAi Pesticides Promise a Greener Farm Future, but Three Big Barriers Stand in the Way
A sweeping new review argues that RNA interference could become a cornerstone of sustainable crop protection, but variable pest responses, ...
AI Framework Reads Insect Clues Like an Expert to Identify Crop Pests
A new vision–language framework called CLARiF combines diagnostic captioning, part-level segmentation, and retrieval-informed re-ranking to achieve state-of-the-art fine-grained pest recognition ...
Four-Stranded DNA Shapes Plant and Insect Biology and Could Transform Pest Control
A new review highlights how four-stranded G-quadruplex DNA and RNA structures regulate plant stress responses and insect development, and how ...
Ethiopia’s Oilseed Yields Hinge on Soil Conservation, Not More Fertilizer, 19-Year Study Finds
A 19-year analysis of Ethiopian survey data finds that soil conservation, crop protection and water catchment practices, rather than added ...
How an Ancient Chemical Weapon Shapes Defense in the World’s Great Cereal Crops
A new review in Plant Cell Reports maps how the benzoxazinoid defense pathway evolved differently across maize, wheat, and rice, ...
Citrus and Coffee Extracts Team Up to Repel Crop-Pesting Aphids
French researchers found that mandarin peel and coffee bean extracts act synergistically to repel the pea aphid, cutting the effective ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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