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Advanced AI techniques enhance crop leaf disease detection in tropical agriculture

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Advanced AI techniques enhance crop leaf disease detection in tropical agriculture

Photographic examples of a plant disease dataset. (a) Balck rot; (b) Northern leaf blight; (c) Isariopsis leaf spot; (d) Brown spot. Credit: Tropical Plants (2024). DOI: 10.48130/tp-0024-0018 Researchers have made significant progress in the field of artificial intelligence by applying deep learning techniques to automate the detection and classification of crop leaf diseases. The consistent … Read more

12 new Oriental weevil species discovered using advanced imaging tools

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12 new Oriental weevil species discovered using advanced imaging tools

Jake Lewis, an entomologist in the Environmental Science and Informatics Section at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), is fascinated by weevils, a diverse group of beetles that includes many species with elephant trunk-like mouthparts (called a rostrum). Weevils provide various ecosystem services such as pollination and decomposition, but some species are serious … Read more