iii Acknowledgements I would like to thank Dr. Hollinger for his financial support, academic knowledge, and enthusiasm for this project. Without his help, none of this thesis would exist. I `would also like to thank my committee—Dr. Dr. Lance Davidson—for all their expert advice and tireless patience. It requires a sincere devotion to education to teach a biochemist like myself to setup and ana...

Computer vision can lead toward more sustainable agricultural production by enabling robotic precision agriculture. Vision-equipped robots are being deployed in the fields to take care of crops and control weeds. However, publicly available datasets containing both image data as well from navigational robot sensors scarce. Our real-world dataset RumexWeeds targets detection grassland weeds: Rum...

Abstract The Indian Crested Porcupine (Hystrix indica) is classified as an agricultural pest species. It feeds on plants and crops; hence, it responsible for massive financial losses worldwide. current study was conducted to assess the diet composition of in District Bagh, Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJ&K). Thus, fecal samples were collected examined from different sampling sites. Reference slides ...

Rumex acetosa is characterized by a multiple chromosome system (2n = 12 + XX for females, and 2n = 12 + XY1Y2 for males), in which sex is determined by the ratio between the number of X chromosomes and autosome sets. For a better understanding of the molecular structure and evolution of plant sex chromosomes, we have generated a sex chromosome specific library of R. acetosa by microdissection. ...