Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.), family Solanaceae, has become in the past fifty years
one of the most important and extensively grown horticultural crops in the Mediterranean …

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Crop production stands as a pivotal pillar of global food security, but its sustainability faces
complex challenges from plant diseases, which pose a substantial threat to agricultural …

Recently, several plant pathogens have become more active due to temperature increases
arising from climate change, which has caused damage to various crops. If climate change …

Plants respond to elevated CO 2 (eCO 2) via a variety of signaling pathways that often rely
on plant hormones. In particular, phytohormone salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonic acid (JA) …

Sustainable development in global and regional contexts has become mandatory to prevent
the potential adverse effects of human activities on the environment. While agricultural …

Anthracnose stalk rot (ASR) of maize results in millions of dollars in losses annually in the
United States. ASR, together with anthracnose leaf blight and anthracnose top dieback, is …

Today, agriculture faces many challenges related to the effects of climate change such as
heat stress, drought, excess humidity, and their contribution to the attack of new variants of …

Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan), a legume of nutritional significance, is highly prone to wilt
disease caused by fungal pathogen, Fusarium udum, that leads to 15–30% of crop mortality …

Monitoring plant diseases is essential for farmers to secure crop quantity and quality. Deep
learning has recently been applied to plant disease recognition to help farmers take prompt …