A research team has developed LGNet, a dual-branch network that combines convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and visual transformers (VTs) for plant disease identification.
Tag: Plant Disease
Expert weighs in on emerging plant disease affecting boxwoods
A West Virginia University plant pathology expert is offering tips to help reduce the spread of a plant disease, called boxwood blight, that is currently threatening one of the most popular shrubs. Mahfuz Rahman, a professor and plant pathology specialist…
Danforth Center Announces New Principal Investigator
Tessa Burch-Smith, PhD, has joined the Danforth Center as Associate Member and Principal Investigator. Her research is focused on how plant cells communicate with each other through intercellular pores called plasmodesmata.
Plastomics Awarded Competitive Grant from the United Soybean Board
Plastomics Inc., an agricultural biotech start-up developing the next generation of trait delivery technology, has been awarded a competitive grant from the United Soybean Board (USB) to develop disease resistant soybeans.
Grant to support research into grape downy mildew
A project led by Kaitlin Gold, assistant professor of plant pathology and plant microbe-biology at Cornell AgriTech, to study grape downy mildew has received a $100,000 USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant.
Dogs trained to detect oak wilt, invasive species
Dogs have highly sensitive noses, a trait environmental conservationists, land managers and plant disease specialists are harnessing to sniff out invasive species.