Interdisciplinary Innovation of AI-Driven Smart Agriculture
A Special Issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729) belonging to the section "Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2027 | Viewed by 73
Editors
Interests: computer vision; object recognition; automatic real-time detection; autorecognition
Interests: plant molecular biology; transcription factors
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Interests: aquatic animal nutrition; lipid metabolism; immunity; nuclear receptors; molecular mechanisms
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are seeking original research and review manuscripts for the Special Issue “Interdisciplinary Innovation of AI-Driven Smart Agriculture”. Global food security, climate change, and low-carbon farming drive the application of artificial intelligence, computer vision and big data to address biological challenges in plants and animal production. Yet agricultural biology research faces various challenges, including heterogeneous phenotypic data, limited utilization of multi-omics resources, and the shortage of interdisciplinary talent bridging computational tools and biological experiments. Merging computational approaches with plants protection, horticulture, animal husbandry, and aquaculture is key to advancing modern agricultural biology. Therefore, cross-disciplinary research empowered by artificial intelligence in agriculture bears great strategic significance.
This Special Issue aims to collect cutting-edge research combining computational intelligence with agricultural biological research, in line with the journal’s scope of plant and animal biology, plants improvement, disease resistance and sustainable agricultural biological research. It bridges gaps between computational tools and agricultural biology, covering biological phenotype datasets, AI-assisted analytical models for plant–animal growth and stress responses, and field-validated biological application schemes. It also provides a platform for researchers to share reproducible AI-supported biological findings related to plants production, horticulture, livestock breeding, aquaculture and low-carbon agro-biology.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
Topics include interpretable agricultural large models for plant and animal growth management; computer vision-based monitoring of plant and animal diseases and pests; high-throughput phenotyping-supported AI-driven breeding for plants and livestock; AI-assisted physiological analysis in precision aquaculture and animal husbandry; carbon–nitrogen modeling and AI-optimized microbial fertilizers; multi-omics data mining for agricultural organisms; and interdisciplinary research cases combining computational tools with agricultural biological experiments.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Wei Zhan
Prof. Dr. Weiwei Zhang
Prof. Dr. Qincheng Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- AI-driven smart agriculture
- interdisciplinary integration
- precision breeding
- sustainable agro-biology
- agricultural multi-omics
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