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A quiet agricultural revolution is taking place in Narail, where farmers are turning to year-round polyshade tomato cultivation for higher yields and better profits. Things look to be very encouraging ...
If gene-editing tomatoes proves effective, researchers hope to bring the first “sunshine tomato” to market within three years ...
Every year, abiotic stress factors such as drought, heat, salinity or high light intensity—combined with unfavorable soil ...
In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor has unlocked an innovative strategy to turn discarded electric vehicle batteries into fertilizer that can help increase crop yields and food security.
Students at Cornell University have devised a novel way to detect if plants and agricultural crops have a sufficient supply of nitrogen.
Agriculture is critical in global food security but faces challenges like declining arable land and climate change. Machine learning, particularly deep learning with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN ...
To cultivate a cotton field of 3,000 mu, equivalent to about 280 standard football pitches, how many farmers are needed? In Yuli County, Xinjiang, the answer is just two. But these two people don't ...
It is a fully biodegradable and eco-friendly system for hydroponic agriculture, made of hydrogel and capable of supporting plant growth with minimal water; in the future, it will be able to monitor ...