Extension plant pathologists deliver science-based information that protects the economic value of agricultural and horticultural crops in the United States by educating growers and the general public about plant diseases. Extension plant pathologists diagnose plant diseases and disorders, provide advice, and conduct applied research on local and regional plant disease problems. During the last...

Plants from a handful of species provide the primary source of food for all people, yet this source is vulnerable to multiple stressors, such as disease, drought, and nutrient deficiency. With rapid population growth and climate uncertainty, the need to produce ...

The principal families of insect vectors which cause the most damage to agricultural crops through the spread of plant diseases are in the order Hemiptera, and include the aphids, leafhoppers, delphacid planthoppers and whiteflies. Another important group of insect vectors found worldwide is the order Thysanoptera, the thrips. Other insects also spread plant diseases; however, aphids alone are ...

The plant of Oscimum sanctum commonly known as “Tulsi”, belong to Lamiaceae family. It is an erect, much branched, fragrant and erected plant attaining a height of about 20-50 cm. Different parts of the plant are used in Ayurveda and Siddha systems of medicine for prevention and cure of many illnesses like cough, influenza, common cold, headache, fever, colic pain, bronchitis, asthma, hepatic d...

For preventing the losses in the yield and quantity of the agricultural product, Classification is performed, if proper analysis is not taken in this approach or classification, then it produce serious effects on plants and due to which respective product quality or productivity is affected. Disease classification on plant is very critical for supportable agriculture. It is very difficult to mo...

A plant disease is defined as anything that prevents a plant from performing to its maximal potential. A plant disease has impacted society and world olden times. Plant diseases have caused enormous economic losses in each one the countries. Diagnosis of diseases in plant is the fortitude of the grounds of a disease in plant, and detection refers to the identification of microorganisms. Failure...

The present study was carried out to assess and document ethnobotanical knowledge of the plants of Sabalan district in Ardabil Province, as the area has diverse flora and high ethnobotanical potential. Medicinal plants of Sabalan were studied through collections of plant specimens and by interviewing local informants from several villages. For Each plant species the scientific and vernacular na...

Plant diseases are often thought to be caused by one species or even by a specific strain. Microbes in nature, however, mostly occur as part of complex communities and this has been noted since the time of van Leeuwenhoek. Interestingly, most laboratory studies focus on single microbial strains grown in pure culture; we were therefore unaware of possible interspecies and/or inter-kingdom intera...

Plant diseases are very impactful towards the overall effectiveness and quality management of agricultural sector. In recent years, deep learning methods have been used as a way to identify these diseases, based on neural networks. The study presents GLCM LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks Integrated with Machine Learning identification plant diseases. It has found that process is accurate can asse...