Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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University of Queensland scientists propose widening the genetic combinations and growing conditions examined in breeding programmes to uncover options for improving productivity and resilience as conventional gains slow.
A study highlighted by Wiley compared conventional management with sensor-guided irrigation in Italian tomato and table-grape plots, reporting water savings of up to 15% alongside improved yield and fruit quality.
USDA NIFA has highlighted Agroview, a commercially deployed analytics platform developed with SBIR support that combines aerial and satellite imagery to measure individual trees and other crop characteristics.
Montana and Washington State researchers tested RGB drone imagery for Potato Virus Y assessment, reporting promising field-level surveillance potential but insufficient performance for dependable diagnosis of individual plants.
A Montana field study found that drone-derived weed maps undercounted weeds compared with a sprayer-mounted camera, with ordinary colour imagery outperforming the tested AI and near-infrared methods for weed counts.
A Montana State University demonstration used overlapping drone photographs to estimate wheat height, showing a low-cost scouting approach while highlighting edge errors and the need to check maps in the field.
An Ontario strawberry grower is testing KONNEXIO’s agroTRAX platform for nighttime UV-C treatment, while researchers assess disease control and the practical operation of robots in protected berry production.
The CERBERUS project has started initial field trials of a variable-rate sprayer in Cyprus, testing whether a control system can translate five-dose prescription maps into orchard spray adjustments.
Rothamsted modelling suggests better nitrogen management could reduce energy-related farm carbon impacts in England, highlighting fertiliser production as an important source of emissions beyond fuel used directly on farms.
Cambridge researchers combined live imaging and gene-expression mapping to show that fungal structures inside rice roots differ in lifespan and nutrient-transfer activity, complicating simple measures of beneficial colonisation.
Cambridge and Berkeley researchers found that removing antenna protein CP26 changes photosynthetic behaviour through structural effects, challenging assumptions about its direct role in dissipating excess absorbed light energy.
A 56-hour microscopy sequence from Cambridge captures living mycorrhizal structures in motion, giving researchers a dynamic view of plant–fungal partnerships that static images could not previously provide.
