Bringing home a new houseplant? Prevention is key to avoiding pest infestations. Inspect the plant closely, especially under ...

Abstract: Pests and pathogens cause significant losses to tomato crop yield, resulting in billion-dollar economic impact worldwide. Early and accurate detection of tomato plant disease is important ...

The Japanese barberry shrub is known as an invasive plant throughout the United States. Some states have banned it and ...

Abstract: The agriculture industry faces significant challenges in maintaining sustainable plant growth while combating diseases that threaten crops. Traditional disease prevention methods rely on ...

Legumes are not only economically significant crops, second only to cereals in human consumption, but also important ...

Sugarcane Mosaic Virus is an emerging problem for our St. Augustine lawns in Florida. Viruses are some of the smallest and ...

Plant viruses pose a serious and ongoing threat to global agriculture in tropical to temperate regions. Among the most damaging are begomoviruses, a group of DNA viruses spread by whiteflies that ...

Gangtok , 6 Jan : The Butterfly Society of Sikkim – TPCF has reported a significant scientific finding by documenting new larval host plants for a butterfly species in India. The study marks the first ...

When you think of a butterfly garden, you probably picture a flowerbed of big, bright blooms, a few butterflies and sunshine. What happens when you get down to plant level and look a little closer?

State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese ...

A Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) assistant for plant disease diagnosis and guidance. It leverages Vision Transformer (ViT) image classification, hybrid retrieval (BM25 + vector search), and ...

It’s often thought that mistletoe spells bad news for its host tree, but new research suggests otherwise – just in time for Christmas. If mistletoe’s status as a nutrient-stealing freeloader has been ...