Accelerating adoption of species-agnostic plant sensors for precision farming
Precision farming is an optimized management farming scheme that seeks to link the real-time needs of crops with the nutrients to be administered. …
Tag: Plant sciences
Structural basis for the activation of plant bunyavirus replication machinery and its dual-targeted inhibition by ribavirin
Despite the discovery of plant viruses as a new class of pathogens over a century ago, the structure of plant virus replication machinery and antiv…
Chromosomal inversion at the DG1 promoter drives double-grain spikelets and enhances grain yield in sorghum
The phenomenon of multiple-grain spikelets is frequently observed in gramineous crops. In the case of dual-floret spikelets, the upper fertile flor…
Super pangenome of Vitis empowers identification of downy mildew resistance genes for grapevine improvement
Grapevine (Vitis) is one of the oldest domesticated fruit crops with great cultural and economic importance. Here we assembled and annotated…
Insights from a century of data reveal global trends in ex situ living plant collections
Ex situ living plant collections play a crucial role in providing nature-based solutions to twenty-first century global challenges. However, the co…
Endosymbionts modulate virus effects on aphid-plant interactions
Vector-borne pathogens frequently modify traits of their primary hosts and vectors in ways that influence disease transmission. Such effects can th…