Above: Hosta with symptoms of leaf spots and necrosis. Do your landscape plants have cankers, mosaics, galls, mummies, or witches’ brooms? These and other symptoms are often hard for the average ...

Swift plant disease diagnosis is vital to prevent extensive production losses and uphold food security. Recently, object detection-based methods using deep learning have shown promise in accurately ...

The PlantIF framework consists of image and text feature extractors, semantic space encoders, and a multimodal feature fusion module. Image and text feature extractors are used to present visual and ...

Spring is the season when more plants are purchased, and more bad ones are brought home, than at any other time of year. A ...

With the cool, wet weather comes the bane of gardeners — plant diseases. Diseases are generally bad news, whether it’s black spot on your roses, rust on your rhododendrons, downy mildew on your ...

If world agricultural authorities don’t get their act together soon enough, your morning orange juice may disappear from the supermarket shelves – for good. This is how critical the situation has ...

Let’s talk about two of the main classifications of plant diseases — biotic and abiotic — and the differences between them. The term “abiotic” means “without life.” Examples include damage from the ...