The researchers discuss the project in its early stages. From left are Aline Novaski Seffrin, doctoral candidate in plant science; Francesco Di Gioia, associate professor of vegetable crop science; ...

Soilless growing systems inside greenhouses, known as controlled environment agriculture, promise to advance the year-round production of high-quality specialty crops, according to an ...

Scientists developed a machine-learning tool that can teach itself, with minimal external guidance, to differentiate between aerial images of flowering and nonflowering grasses -- an advance that will ...

In many plant breeding programs, secondary traits other than the main trait of interest, are routinely collected throughout the year. These layers of information are referred to as ‘omics’, and ...

Valeria Kogan is the CEO of Fermata, a software-development company specializing in agriculture. Her team develops AI tools to reduce crop loss that causes food waste and greenhouse gas emissions.

If you unlocked your smartphone with a glance today, you’ve tapped into computer vision. Simply put, computer vision entails training computers to “recognize” objects visually—everything from human ...

Andrew Leakey and his colleagues developed an AI tool that uses minimal training to teach itself to distinguish the flowers of thousands of varieties of Miscanthus, a plant used in biofuels production ...