Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.), family Solanaceae, has become in the past fifty years
one of the most important and extensively grown horticultural crops in the Mediterranean …

Background In dry and semi-arid areas, salinity is the most serious hazard to agriculture,
which can affect plant growth and development adversely. Over-accumulation of Na+ in …

Wearable plant sensors hold tremendous potential for smart agriculture. We report a lower
leaf surface-attached multimodal wearable sensor for continuous monitoring of plant …

The horticultural industry helps to enrich and improve the human diet while contributing to
growth of the agricultural economy. However, fungal diseases of horticultural crops …

The success of sustainable agricultural practices has now become heavily dependent on the
interactions between crop plants and their associated microbiome. Continuous …

Fruits, vegetables and other plant-derived foods contribute important ingredients for human
diets, and are thus favored by consumers worldwide. Among these horticultural crops …

High-throughput sequencing (HTS) has instigated a paradigm shift in plant pathology,
showcasing its transformative role in the management of plant diseases. As a powerful tool …

Globally, Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) is ranked one of the most destructive bacterial
pathogens inducing rapid and fatal wilting symptoms on tomatoes. Yield losses on tomatoes …

Advances in high throughput omics techniques provide avenues to decipher plant
microbiomes. However, there is limited information on how integrated informatics can help …

Tomato is a globally important horticultural and economic crop, but its productivity is
severely affected by various stresses. Plant small secretory peptides have been identified as …