Among these strains, Guotian identified one with dark patches on its leaves. “He found that the ... including the fungus that causes rice blast. In small-scale field trials planted in disease-heavy ...

In addition to the already widely spread diseases of rice such as blast, sheath blight, false and bacterial leaf blight, threats of emerging diseases are becoming more serious such as in the case of ...

"A deep learning model trained on images of plant leaves showing different stages of disease can spot early signs of infection with high accuracy," he said. Catching these symptoms early is ...

Among these strains, Guotian identified one with dark patches on its leaves ... the fungus that causes rice blast. In small-scale field trials planted in disease-heavy plots, the new rice ...