Florida Department of Citrus

Chloroplast-Associated ROS Signaling Shapes Tissue-Specific Pathogenicity Mechanisms of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus in Leaf and Root

The phloem-colonizing bacterial pathogen Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas) causes the devastating citrus Huanglongbing (HLB). Despite the important roles of roots, how CLas affects roots remains largely unknown. Here we dissected host responses in leaf and root at differen...

Differential stoichiometric responses of tolerant and susceptible sugarcane cultivars to silicon under drought and bacterial leaf scald

Sugarcane production is frequently impacted by the simultaneous occurrence of water deficit and diseases such as leaf scald, caused by Xanthomonas albilineans . These stresses can disrupt water relations, nutrient balance, and biomass production. Silicon (Si) has been reported to...

Explainable lightweight deep learning architectures for crop anomaly detection using enhanced Grad-CAM and transfer learning

This study improves the interpretability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for crop anomaly detection while identifying architectures suitable for deployment on resource constraints edge devices. Six CNNs, including the proposed hybrid, were evaluated across 10 crop species...