Highlights•The challenges involved in the automatic identification of plant diseases are
characterised.•The impact of those challenges on current proposals is discussed.•Possible …

Phytopathogenic bacteria cause severe economic losses in agricultural production
worldwide. The spread rates, severity, and emerging plant bacterial diseases have become …

Cardamom is a queen of spices. It is indigenously grown in the evergreen forests of
Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and the northeastern states of India. India is the third largest …

Over the last few years, considerable effort has been spent by Embrapa in the construction
of a plant disease database representative enough for the development of effective methods …

Automatic crop disease recognition in the wild is a challenging topic in modern intelligent
agriculture due to the appearance variances and cluttered background among crop …

Computer vision systems are becoming a scientific but also a commercial tool for food
quality assessment. In the field, these systems can be used to predict yield, as well as for …

In recent years, precision agriculture has been researched to increase crop production with
less inputs, as a promising means to meet the growing demand of agriculture products …

Real-time and accurate on-branch fruit recognition in an uncontrolled/unstructured
environment of orchards could facilitate Precision Horticulture (PH) practices. These …

Severe crop defoliation caused by insects and pests is linked to low agricultural productivity.
If the root cause is not addressed, severe defoliation spreads, damaging whole crop fields …

Citrus Huanglongbing (HLB) has posed a great challenge to the citrus production. Timely
removal of HLB infected trees was considered as one of the most effective strategies for …