Scientific data
Jul 28, 2025
Cocoa is a multi-billion-dollar industry but research on improving yields through pollination remains limited. New embedded hardware and AI-based data analysis is advancing information on cocoa flower visitors, their identity and implications for yie...
Scientific reports
Jul 16, 2025
Tomato growing points and flower buds serve as vital physiological indicators influencing yield quality, yet their detection remains challenging in complex facility environments. This study develops an improved YOLOv8 model for robust flower bud dete...
Scientific reports
Jul 1, 2025
Durian is a valuable tropical fruit whose pollination heavily relies on bats and nocturnal insects. However, environmental degradation and pesticide usage have reduced insect populations, leading to inefficient natural pollination. This study propose...
Current biology : CB
Apr 14, 2025
The radiation of angiosperms is marked by a phenomenal diversity of floral size, shape, color, scent, and reward. The multi-dimensional response to selection to optimize pollination has generated correlated suites of these floral traits across distan...
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
Feb 25, 2025
This study explores the use of near-infrared (NIR), mid-infrared (MIR), and Raman spectral fusion for the rapid prediction of floral origins and main taste components in Apis cerana (A. cerana) honey. Feature-level fusion with the partial least squar...
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik
Jan 24, 2025
Cotton is an important crop for fiber production, but the genetic basis underlying key agronomic traits, such as fiber quality and flowering days, remains complex. While machine learning (ML) has shown great potential in uncovering the genetic archit...
Developmental cell
Jan 13, 2025
N-methyladenosine (mA) RNA modification and its effectors control various plant developmental processes, yet whether and how these effectors are transcriptionally controlled to confer functional specificity so far remain elusive. Herein, we show that...
Chemistry & biodiversity
Jan 13, 2025
The approaches used to determine the medicinal properties of the plants are often destructive, labor-intensive, time-consuming, and expensive, making it impossible to analyze their quality analysis online. Performance of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) i...
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
Jan 2, 2025
Saffron (Crocus sativus L.), the dried stigma, is an extremely valuable spice and medicinal herb, whose economic value is affected by geographical origin, age and grade. In this study, we proposed a method to identify saffron from different Chinese o...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
Dec 2, 2024
In natural restoration, it is important to improve the efficiency of monitoring. Remote sensing using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms plays a major role in improving monitoring efficiency. UAV platforms are particularly suited for monitoring ...