crop breeding

Academician Qian Qian: The ‘Breeding 5.0’ Framework Driven by Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Technology

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Academician Qian Qian: The 'Breeding 5.0' Framework Driven by Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Technology

On August 26, the State Council released the “Opinions on Deepening the Implementation of the ‘Artificial Intelligence+’ Action Plan,” marking the accelerated arrival of the ‘Artificial Intelligence + Agriculture’ era. It clearly states the need to “accelerate the innovation of breeding systems driven by artificial intelligence. Just prior, on August 6, Academician Qian Qian’s team … Read more

Engineering Crop Flower Morphology Facilitates Robotization of Cross-Pollination and Speed Breeding

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Engineering Crop Flower Morphology Facilitates Robotization of Cross-Pollination and Speed Breeding

Title: Engineering crop flower morphology facilitates robotization of cross-pollination and speed breeding Original link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.07.028 Recently, the team led by Cao Xu from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the team led by Han Hua from the Institute of Automation, published a research paper titled “Engineering crop … Read more

Development of an IoT-based Imaging System for Automated In-field Monitoring

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Development of an IoT-based Imaging System for Automated In-field Monitoring

The automated monitoring and evaluation system of plant phenotypes is one of the keys to advancing and strengthening crop breeding programs. In this study, improvements to the camera-based sensor system and a previous research weather station primarily assembled from Raspberry Pi products are outlined—a board with dual cameras (RGB and NoIR) that provides high spatial … Read more