Scientific reports
Aug 20, 2025
As a key ecological parameter, NPP measures the photosynthetic efficiency of plants in capturing atmospheric carbon. With the warming of the climate, extreme temperature events are frequent, which has exerted a profound influence on NPP. Previous stu...
Plant, cell & environment
Apr 21, 2025
The NON-RACE-SPECIFIC DISEASE RESISTANCE 1/harpin-induced 1-LIKE (NHL) gene family plays pivotal roles, including pathogen resistance, abiotic stress tolerance, and developmental regulation, underscoring their functional versatility in developmental ...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Feb 4, 2025
Soft robots are usually manufactured using the pouring method and can only be configured with a fixed execution area, which often faces the problem of insufficient or wasteful performance in real-world applications, and cannot be reused for other tas...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Nov 12, 2024
This paper presents the development and control of a dynamic model for a plant-inspired growing robot, termed the 'vine-robot', using the Euler-Lagrangian method. The unique growth mechanism of the vine-robot enables it to navigate complex environmen...
Scientific reports
Jan 17, 2024
Plant image analysis is a significant tool for plant phenotyping. Image analysis has been used to assess plant trails, forecast plant growth, and offer geographical information about images. The area segmentation and counting of the leaf is a major c...
Scientific reports
Mar 16, 2023
Understanding how plants respond to environmental conditions such as temperature, CO, humidity, and light radiation is essential for plant growth. This paper proposes an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model to predict plant response to environmental...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Aug 9, 2022
Many natural organisms, such as fungal hyphae and plant roots, grow at their tips, enabling the generation of complex bodies composed of natural materials as well as dexterous movement and exploration. Tip growth presents an exemplary process by whic...
PloS one
Dec 17, 2020
A lack of sufficient training data, both in terms of variety and quantity, is often the bottleneck in the development of machine learning (ML) applications in any domain. For agricultural applications, ML-based models designed to perform tasks such a...
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
Jul 1, 2019
Robot systems are actively researched for manipulation of natural plants, typically restricted to agricultural automation activities such as harvest, irrigation, and mechanical weed control. Extending this research, we introduce here a novel methodol...
International journal of biometeorology
Apr 11, 2018
Changes in the timing of plant phenological phases are important proxies in contemporary climate research. However, most of the commonly used traditional phenological observations do not give any coherent spatial information. While consistent spatial...