Farmers and outdoor workers in the Northeast are facing an escalating threat of tick-borne diseases, which could be devastating to their livelihoods, according to new research led by Mandy Roome, associate director of the Tick-borne Disease Center at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

Tomatoes are an important vegetable crop worldwide, but their picking operations have long relied on manual labor, facing problems such as high labor intensity, high costs, and easy fruit damage. In protected tomato cultivation, fruits often grow in clusters with dense branches and leaves. Traditional mechanical picking equipment is prone to environmental interference, resulting in low picking success rates or high damage rates. How to achieve efficient and non-destructive picking of tomatoes in complex planting environments?

In the vast cotton fields of Xinjiang, plastic film covering technology has been a weapon for increasing yield—it conserves water, raises temperatures, and improves water utilization efficiency, significantly boosting cotton production in arid regions.

University of Warwick researchers discover rapid, jasmonate-driven, early immune response in plants using breakthrough live-imaging tool.