In a new strategy to combat citrus greening disease, scientists have engineered citrus trees to act as both bait and executioner for the insects that spread the disease. Using virus-induced gene ...
If world agricultural authorities don’t get their act together soon enough, your morning orange juice may disappear from the supermarket shelves – for good. This is how critical the situation has ...
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — The San Diego citrus industry brings in more than $100 million each year, but there is one bug that could severely impact citrus crops. One way that San Diegans can help ...
In this study, we evaluate the performance of four deep learning models, EfficientNetB0, ResNet50, DenseNet121, and InceptionV3, for the classification of citrus diseases from images. Extensive ...
Recent advancements in domain-specific classification methods have demonstrated the remarkable performance of deep learning in comparison to traditional machine learning techniques. This study ...
Citrus trees showing natural tolerance to citrus greening disease host bacteria that produce novel antimicrobials that can be used to fight off the disease, our recent study shows. We found the trees ...
Take a trip to your local nursery these days and you will find a good supply of citrus plants. Limes, lemons, oranges and mandarins are fresh from the grower and ready for your garden. You might ...
They do require an attentive gardener, however.