Solar greenhouse, as an intelligent production system, is a trend in the development of facility agriculture. The major crops cultivated in greenhouses are high-value crops such as leafy vegetables, fruit vegetables, and flowering plants. Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a new technology of information acquisition that has been widely used in agriculture, especially in greenhouses. Environmenta...

To engineer plants with increased and durable disease resistance using transgenic technologies we must address two questions. First, what gene or genes do we want to express to improve disease resistance, and second, how are we going to express these genes so that crop yields are actually increased? Emerging technologies are providing us with a plethora of candidate genes that might lead to enh...

The evolution of problematic plants, both weeds and invasives, is a topic of increasing interest. Plants that have evolved from domesticated ancestors have certain advantages for study. Because of their economic importance, domesticated plants are generally well-characterized and readily available for ecogenetic comparison with their wild descendants. Thus, the evolutionary history of crop desc...

The main requisite for weeding-thinning machine is the location of the main stem of the crop. In this study, crops and their positions were detected using image processing techniques with the aid of artificial neural networks. Morphological operations were performed to singulate different objects in the images. Several shape features were fed to artificial neural network to discriminate between...