Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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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.
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.
A three-year UC Davis study of 16 orchard operations found that robotic and AI tools still depend on human expertise, changing how work is organised rather than simply removing it.
Two open-source models from NASA Harvest and Agmatix interpret vegetation-index time series to estimate current crop stages and separate successive growing cycles, supporting satellite-based agricultural monitoring across different crops.
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.
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.
A Cambridge–Solynta collaboration is developing virus-based delivery of gene-editing components in potatoes, aiming to reduce reliance on tissue culture while progressing towards stable, heritable edits in plants.
Cambridge and Copenhagen researchers found that elevated carbon dioxide strengthened rice reliance on beneficial fungi for phosphorus, with the PT11 transporter helping coordinate changes in root nutrient acquisition.
Eight Wageningen researchers received Vidi awards, including projects on soil fungi and crop PFAS contamination, recycled phosphorus availability during drought, and groundwater protection for food production.
Wageningen researcher Inge de Graaf received a Vidi grant for SAFE-GROUND, a modelling project examining how climate extremes and water demand connect groundwater stress with food production and ecosystems.
