Traditionally farmers have used their perceptual sensorial systems to diagnose and monitor
their crops health and needs. However, humans possess five basic perceptual systems with …

The aboveground parts of terrestrial plants, collectively called the phyllosphere, have a key
role in the global balance of atmospheric carbon dioxide and oxygen. The phyllosphere …

Urban trees provide different ecosystem benefits, such as improving air quality due to the
retention of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) on their leaves. The main objective of this …

Artificial intelligence (AI) has smoothly penetrated in a number of monitoring and control
applications including agriculture. However, research efforts toward low-power sensing …

DNA-free genome editing was used to induce mutations in one or two branching enzyme
genes (Sbe) in tetraploid potato to develop starch with an increased amylose ratio and …

Bats suppress insect populations in agricultural ecosystems, yet the question of whether
bats initiate trophic cascades in forests is mainly unexplored. We used a field experiment to …

Progress in remote sensing and robotic technologies decreases the hardware costs of
phenoty**. Here, we first review cost-effective imaging devices and environmental …

Nitrogen (N) is a macronutrient that boosts carbon (C) metabolism and plant growth leading
to biomass accumulation. The molecular connection between nitrogen utilization efficiency …

Improving the accuracy of predicting plant productivity is a key element in planning nutrient
management strategies to ensure a balance between nutrient supply and demand under …

Soybean is one of the ten greatest crops in the world, answering for billion-dollar businesses
every year. This crop suffers from insect herbivory that costs millions from producers. Hence …