Toward Systems Agroecology: Design and Control of Intercropping Academic Background With changing climatic conditions and the gradual depletion of natural resources such as fertile soil and water, exploring alternatives to today’s industrial monocrop farming has become essential. Intercropping (IC), a promising agricultural practice, involves growi...

How Removing Aquatic Vegetation Can Help Rural Households Escape Poverty-Disease Traps Academic Background In low- and middle-income countries, rural populations face relatively high infectious disease prevalence and low agricultural productivity, which together result in low incomes, creating a poverty-disease trap. This trap reinforces poverty an...

Academic Paper Report: Open World Object Detection Framework Using SAM Background As the importance of ecosystem monitoring grows, the observation of wildlife and plant populations has become a crucial aspect of ecological conservation and agricultural development. These monitoring tasks include estimating population sizes, identifying species, stu...

Cotton Population-Level DNA Methylation Polymorphism Study Reveals Epigenomic Contributions to Complex Traits Background and Research Motivation In recent decades, genome and genetic diversity have been extensively studied through genome-wide association studies (GWAS), providing a theoretical foundation for understanding crop trait variations. How...

Academic Background In the field of plant biotechnology, traditional gene manipulation methods focus on producing the desired phenotypes and cellular activities through continuous transgene expression. However, strong continuous promoters may lead to gene silencing, metabolic burdens, or other adverse effects on yield, preventing the full realizati...