It also has implications for the control of rice blast disease, because proteins that are involved in infection could be targets for the development of new fungicides.

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boosting the prevalence of 'good' bacteria that protect the plant from disease. The findings published in Nature Communications by researchers from the University of Southampton, China and Austria, ...

Researchers have made significant progress in the field of artificial intelligence by applying deep learning techniques to automate the detection and classification of crop leaf diseases.