A virus responsible for damaging cotton crops across the southern United States has been lurking in U.S. fields for nearly 20 ...

Health officials have stepped up disease surveillance efforts after finding signs of the West Nile virus in mosquitoes in the ...

Our research underscores the dual role of the phytoplasma effector SAP54 in host development alteration and vector attraction - integral to the phytoplasma life cycle. Importantly, we clarify how ...

Leaf Curl Virus and Yellow Mosiac Diseases are two of the major ... The virus thrives in warm, tropical climates (25-30°C), which are conducive to the growth of both the virus and its vector. Infected ...

Furthermore, mutual shading between plants results in an uneven distribution of leaf point density in the crop canopy. We developed a novel voxel segmentation normal vector (VSNV) method for ...

In the past decade, CR testing trends show that cordless leaf blowers have evolved from a niche product for light leaf cleanup to a viable alternative to heavy-duty gas-powered blowers.

(B) The aphid’s vector of ScYLV. Left: back view of the aphid ... treatment to ensure the average germination rate of the stems above 60% and no yellow leaf virus was detected at the growth point of ...

were extracted from the lettuce leaf canopies. With the use of the decision tree (DT), this 18-feature vector was narrowed down to the 10 most significant features (R, G, S, a*, Cb, Cr, contrast, ...

Leaf counting in potted plants is an important building block ... flattening the maps to a compact 256 × 1 representation. This vector is fed into two fully connected layers with decreasing sizes of ...