Agriculture
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Resistance genes to North American races of the stripe rust pathogen
Wheat is vulnerable to different diseases including rusts, Wheat rusts are fungal diseases causing dramatic yield losses, Three rust diseases are present: leaf rust, stripe rust and stem rust, Rust disease can occur as sudden epidemics on a continental scale due to the widespread dispersal of spores
Read More >4D imaging system for root phenotyping
The Technology Root phenotypic plasticity is a major factor allowing plants to adapt to their ever changing environment. Although this fundamental issue is of great agricultural importance, studying root plasticity is highly complex due to their... Read More >
A novel herbicide
Technology We discovered that ornidazole, which is used to treat protozoan and anaerobic bacterial infections, abolishes photosynthesis and growth of cyanobacteria, green algae and plants at concentrations of 0.5-5 mM. Analysis of its mode of... Read More >
An agricultural mobile robot guided by sonar and vision for crops and yield estimation
TechnologyUsing bio-inspired sensing methods (from bats) for crop estimation, plant examination and plant classification. The system is based on a mobile robotic platform with vision and sonar sensing that is doing the agricultural tests.The Need... Read More >
