Frequency-guided AI detector spots tiny pests in crowded trap images
Researchers at Ningbo University developed PestFG-RTDETR, a transformer-based detector that improves small pest detection in dense trap-captured images with higher ...
Tag: crop protection
Tiny vesicles from plants may help crops fight drought, salt and disease
A new review describes how plant-derived extracellular vesicles carry stress-responsive proteins and RNAs between cells and may enable RNA-based crop ...
Washout Filter Model Offers New Route to Delay Aphid Outbreaks
A new mathematical modeling study proposes using catastrophe control theory and a washout filter to delay aphid outbreaks or stabilize ...
Research report: Non-target effect of fungicides on root endophytic fungus Microdochium bolleyi in barley
Greenhouse experiments show the systemic fungicide prothioconazole reduced root colonisation of barley by the non-target endophytic fungus Microdochium bolleyi by ...
Seaweed Extract Shows Strongest Lab Activity Against Mycotoxin-Producing Fungus
In vitro tests show that an extract of the green seaweed Ulva, rich in sulfated ulvans and specific phenolics, is ...
Plants Wage Chemical Warfare Against Pathogens, and Scientists Are Learning to Weaponize It
A comprehensive review maps how plants deploy bioactive compounds against pathogens and outlines genetic, nanotech and microbiome strategies to engineer ...
Deep Learning Model Reaches 98.39% Accuracy in Cotton Leaf Disease Classification
A hybrid ConvNeXt and Random Walk Grey Wolf Optimizer framework classified six categories of cotton leaf conditions with 98.39% accuracy ...
AI Reads Nematode Body Shapes to Identify Devastating Crop Parasites
A hybrid deep learning framework that fuses handcrafted morphological measurements with convolutional image features identified two destructive root-knot nematode species ...
Conserved β-tubulin as a target of ivermectin in plant-parasitic nematodes: molecular modelling and experimental protection of potato
A study combining sequence analysis, molecular simulations and potato experiments found predicted ivermectin binding to conserved nematode β-tubulin and reduced ...
Jacques Derron Built Pest Control Around Ecology, Evidence and Shared Knowledge
The career of Swiss entomologist Jacques Derron demonstrated how ecological research, biological control and carefully calibrated intervention thresholds can make ...
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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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