Tea is one of the most consumed beverages in the world. However, tea plants are often susceptible to various diseases, especially leaf diseases. Currently, most tea farms identify leaf diseases through manual inspection. Due to its time-consuming and...
Tea is a globally important economic crop, and the ability to quickly and accurately identify tea leaf diseases can significantly improve both the yield and quality of tea production. With advances in deep learning, many recent studies have demonstra...
Tea leaf diseases are among the most critical factors affecting the yield and quality of tea harvests. Due to climate change and widespread pesticide use in tea cultivation, these diseases have become more prevalent. As the demand for high-quality te...
Deploying deep convolutional neural networks on agricultural devices with limited resources is challenging due to their large number of parameters. Existing lightweight networks can alleviate this problem but suffer from low performance. To this end,...
Diseases and insect pests of tea leaves cause huge economic losses to the tea industry every year, so the accurate identification of them is significant. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can automatically extract features from images of tea leave...
Tea diseases are one of the main causes of tea yield reduction, and the use of computer vision for classification and diagnosis is an effective means of tea disease management. However, the random location of lesions, high symptom similarity, and com...
Tea disease detection is of great significance to the tea industry. In order to solve the problems such as mutual occlusion of leaves, light disturbance, and small lesion area under complex background, YOLO-SSM, a tea disease detection model, was pro...
The rapid, recent development of image recognition technologies has led to the widespread use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in automated image classification and in the recognition of plant diseases. Aims: The aim of the present study was t...
The detection and identification of tea leaf diseases and pests play a crucial role in determining the yield and quality of tea. However, the high similarity between different tea leaf diseases and the difficulty of balancing model accuracy and compl...
Background: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a subset of fatty liver disease that is not caused by alcohol or viruses, and its increasing incidence presents a major global health concern. As few pharmacotherapies are available for NAFLD, l...
In response to issues such as low resolution, severe occlusion, and insufficient fine-grained feature extraction in tea plantation disease detection, this study proposes an improved YOLOv10 network based on low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle remote...
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic, recurrent pruritic skin disease with repeated remissions and exacerbations. Various factors, such as allergies, skin conditions and lifestyle, combine to cause AD, making it difficult to cure completely. Although...
Liver injury induced by alcohol is a serious global health problem. Several tea-like plants are widely used as beverages, which are drunk like tea. In this study, the hepatoprotective effects of eight tea-like plant extracts with the intake of 200 mg...
The tea industry, as one of the most globally important agricultural products, is characterized by pests and diseases that pose a serious threat to yield and quality. These diseases and pests often present different scales and morphologies, and some...
Blister blight and small leaf spots are important alpine diseases that mainly attack tender tea leaves, affecting tea quality. However, there is limited information on the effect of these diseases on tea’s non-volatile and volatile metabolites....
Currently, the detection of tea pests and diseases remains a challenging task due to the complex background and the diverse spot patterns of tea leaves. Traditional methods of tea pest detection mainly rely on the experience of tea farmers and expert...
Moringa oleifera Lam. (M. oleifera) has been called the “miracle tree” due to its attributes for therapy in various diseases. However, M. oleifera studies on the male reproductive system have been limited. The aim of this study was a phytochemical sc...
Tea leaf spot caused by Didymella segeticola is an important disease that threatens the healthy growth of tea plants (Camellia sinensis) and results in reductions in the productivity and quality of tea leaves. Early diagnosis of the disease is partic...
Salicylic acid (SA) is a well-known immune-related hormone that has been well studied in model plants. However, less attention has been paid to the presence of SA and its derivatives in economic plants, such as tea plants (Camellia sinensis). This st...
Sooty mould (SM) disease affects the growth, development and metabolism of plants and reduces the commodity and economic value of crops. SM disease is one of the important leaf diseases in tea plants. Nonetheless, studies on the effect of SM disease...
Camellia sinensis is one of the major crops grown in Taiwan and has been widely cultivated around the island. Tea leaves are prone to various fungal infections, and leaf spot is considered one of the major diseases in Taiwan tea fields. As part of a...
An innovative plant growth monitoring and environmental control platform is designed and implemented in this study. In addition to using multi-band artificial light sources for plant growth and development, an artificial intelligence of things (AIoT)...
The plant microbiome plays a crucial role in the health of the tea plant, while Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is widely utilized as a biological pesticide in tea gardens, promoting sustainable agricultural practices. However, the effects of Bt spraying...
In order to efficiently identify early tea diseases, an improved YOLOv8 lesion detection method is proposed to address the challenges posed by the complex background of tea diseases, difficulty in detecting small lesions, and low recognition rate of...
Vine tea (Ampelopsis grossedentata) is a traditional herb widely consumed in southwestern China that possesses paramount potential for human health. In 2021, the outbreak of typical leaf blight disease was observed in almost all vine tea plantations...
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a disease caused by hyperglycemia, an imbalance in the intestinal flora and disruption of the endocrine system. At present, it is primarily controlled through drug treatment and an improved diet. Mulberry leaf and fu brick...
The efficacy of soil conditioner (vermicompost tea), fertiliser (potassium silicate), and biological control agents (BCAs) as practical agroecological copper alternatives against olive leaf spot (Spilocaea oleaginea (Cast.) Hughe.) disease was invest...
Crop diseases pose a major threat to agricultural production, quality, and sustainable development, highlighting the importance of early disease risk prediction for effective disease control. Tea anthracnose can easily occur in Yunnan under high-temp...
Tropospheric ozone (O3) pollution can affect plant nutritional quality and secondary metabolites by altering plant biochemistry and physiology, which may lead to unpredictable effects on crop quality and resistance to pests and diseases. Here, we inv...
Natural products and their analogues have contributed significantly to treatment options, especially for anti-inflammatory and infectious diseases. Thus, the primary objective of this work was to compare the bioactivity profiles of selected medicinal...
Amplicon sequencing is a powerful tool for analyzing the fungal composition inside plants, whereas its application for the identification of etiology for plant diseases remains undetermined. Here, we utilize this strategy to clarify the etiology resp...
Pathogenesis-related 1 (PR-1) proteins, which are defense proteins in plant–pathogen interactions, play an important role in the resistance and defense of plants against diseases. Blister blight disease is caused by Exobasidium vexans Massee an...
Tea is second only to water as the world’s most popular drink and it is consumed in various forms, such as black and green teas. A range of cultivars has therefore been developed in response to customer preferences. In Japan, farmers may grow s...
In tea (Camellia sinensis) plants, polyphenols are the representative metabolites and play important roles during their growth. Among tea polyphenols, catechins are extensively studied, while very little attention has been paid to other polyphenols s...
The necrotrophic fungus Alternaria alternata contains different pathotypes that produce different mycotoxins. The pathotype Ageratina adenophora secretes the non-host-selective toxin tenuazonic acid (TeA), which can cause necrosis in many plants. Alt...
Lichens are symbiotic organisms that are composed of fungal partners and photosynthetic algal partners. During the symbiotic process in lichen thallus, the fungus synthesizes certain secondary metabolites in which lecanoric acid is very important in...
Tea disease detection is crucial for improving the agricultural circular economy. Deep learning-based methods have been widely applied to this task, and the main idea of these methods is to extract multiscale coarse features of diseases using the bac...
Alternaria species produce diverse secondary metabolites that act as critical virulence factors during plant pathogenesis. In cultivation areas of Chrysanthemum morifolium ‘Fubai’—a key cultivar for herbal tea—black spot disea...
Anthracnose is a major leaf disease in tea plant induced by Colletotrichum, which has led to substantial losses in yield and quality of tea. The molecular mechanism with regards to responses or resistance to anthracnose in tea remains unclear. A de n...
Tea leaves are rich in diverse bioactive compounds. The tea accession TRI 2043 is unique due to its pigmented leaves caused by anthocyanins, clonal origin, resistance to blister blight disease, and high pubescence density. Because of its peculiarity,...
Anthracnose, caused by Colletotrichum spp., is a significant disease affecting oil tea (Camellia oleifera Abel.). Extensive molecular studies have demonstrated that Colletotrichum fructicola is the dominant pathogen of oil tea anthracnose in China. T...
Downy mildew, caused by Plasmopara viticola, is a major threat to grapevine (Vitis vinifera) cultivation in humid climates. Restrictions on synthetic pesticides and inconsistent efficacy of current biocontrol agents, especially under rainy conditions...
The tropical tree Moringa oleifera produces high yields of protein-rich leaf biomass, is widely used as a food source, contains an abundance of phytochemicals, and thus has great potential for chronic disease prevention and perhaps, treatment. We hav...
Black tea is one of the most popular beverages consumed in the world. It is stronger in taste as well as in flavour compared to other less oxidized teas. It is made from the leaves of the shrub Camellia sinensis var. assamica. Black tea can be supple...
Tea cultivation holds significant economic value, yet the leaves of tea plants are frequently susceptible to various pest and disease infestations. Consequently, there is a critical need for research focused on precisely and efficiently detecting the...
Postprandial dysmetabolism, which refers to the impaired regulation of glucose and lipid levels after meals, is recognized as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Diets rich in polyphenols have demonstrated potential in impr...
Anthocyanins, key quality components of tea, act as an important bridge between plants and the environment due to their function on protecting plants from biotic and abiotic irritants. This study aimed to assess the interactions between anthocyanins...
Unmanned aerial vehicles are widely used in agricultural disease detection. Still, slight image blurring caused by lighting, wind, and flight instability often hampers the detection of dense small targets like tea leaf blight spots. In response to th...
Timorex Gold based on the essential tea tree oil (TTO) derived from the Australian tea tree oil (Melaleuca alternifolia) plant has demonstrated high efficacy and a strong curative activity against black Sigatoka in banana and controlled it in stages...
Anthracnose is a leaf fungal disease caused by multiple Colletotrichum species. Currently, the predominant deployment of chemical agents for anthracnose control increases ecological pollution risks and potential food safety concerns. The comprehensio...
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