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Original Research

Published on 06 Feb 2026

ELGCot3D: a lightweight 3D cotton point cloud segmentation model based on EdgeConv-Local Attention-GCN and semantic feature enhancement

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Hao Qiu
Xiaoyan Meng
Yongke Li
Yunjie Zhao
Xiaoyu Li
Shuai Yin
Haoyuan Niu

Frontiers in Plant Science

doi 10.3389/fpls.2026.1765604

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Specialty Grand Challenge

Published on 06 Feb 2026

From sequencing to understanding: a grand challenge in genome-scale molecular and genetic analysis

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Ruslan Kalendar

Frontiers in Plant Science

doi 10.3389/fpls.2026.1782107

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Original Research

Published on 05 Feb 2026

Novel estimation of tomato soluble solids content using linearly transformed reflectance-based spectral indices

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Naisen Liu
Yuan Fang
Yongzhen Zhao
Yuezhen Chen
Yangxia Zheng
Xuedong Zha
Jingyu Guo
Xia Li

Frontiers in Plant Science

doi 10.3389/fpls.2026.1729375

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Original Research

Published on 05 Feb 2026

Citizen science in plant disease surveillance

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Amelia Martin
Nicholas Goltz

Frontiers in Plant Science

doi 10.3389/fpls.2026.1775094

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Original Research

Published on 03 Feb 2026

A cost-effective dual reporter system in Nicotiana benthamiana

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Zeru Zhang
Shuangle Yan
Fuqi Li
Zhijuan Rao
Fahong Fan
Haibin Ren
Yanlin Qu
Ke Yang
Chuanyu Ma
Chen Zhuang

Frontiers in Plant Science

doi 10.3389/fpls.2026.1732683

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Original Research

Published on 02 Feb 2026

Establishment and comparative analysis of Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation systems for Actinidia valvata and Actinidia chinensis

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Junyao Xia
Jinfang Shu
Su Lin
Junjie Zhu
Fangbin Lin
Runxuan Fang
Liuqing Huo
Jinhua Liu
Kai Xu
Haijie Ma

Frontiers in Plant Science

doi 10.3389/fpls.2026.1764453

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Methods

Accepted on 31 Jan 2026

Accurate Detection and Density Estimation of Peach Tree Inflorescences Using an Improved YOLOv11 Model

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Jiangtao Ji
Xiaoxuan Lu
Hao Ma
Xinyi Lu
Yaqing Yang
Hongwei Cui
Meijia Yu
Xuran Xie

Frontiers in Plant Science

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Original Research

Accepted on 31 Jan 2026

Cotton Boll Extraction and Single-Boll Weight Estimation Based on UAV Multispectral Imagery

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Maoguang Chen
Caixia Yin
Na Su
TAO Lin
Xiuliang Jin
Fengquan Wu
Pingan Jiang
Qiuxiang Tang

Frontiers in Plant Science

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Original Research

Accepted on 31 Jan 2026

Enabling rapid and accurate grand discrimination of flue-cured tobacco: a near-infrared hyperspectral and machine learning approach

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Jiang Zou
Hongbo Gao
Duo Wang
Yunquan Chen
Shiyou Deng
Nuo Shi
Shengjie Yang
Chunlin Huang
Dingchun Zi
Yu Du

Frontiers in Plant Science

559 views

Original Research

Accepted on 30 Jan 2026

HDA-YOLO: A Hierarchical Attention-Driven Dense Fusion Network for Rice Pest Detection in Complex Agricultural Environments

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Shuo Yuan
Ying Duan
Hongting Su
Xinhui Zhou
Yinfeng Hao

Frontiers in Plant Science

Original Research

Accepted on 30 Jan 2026

A wheat canopy albedo high-throughput phenotyping method and its relationship with canopy architecture and leaf properties

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Maria Francisca Ruz-Ruiz
Jose A. Jimenez-Berni
Richard Trethowan
Helen Bramley

Frontiers in Plant Science

Original Research

Accepted on 29 Jan 2026

Real-Time On-Device Weed Identification Using a Hardware-Efficient Lightweight CNN

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Yuxuan Zhang
Yuchen Lu
Luciano Sebastian Martinez-Rau
Quan Qiu
Sebastian Bader

Frontiers in Plant Science

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Review

Published on 29 Jan 2026

Artificial intelligence in plant science: from image-based phenotyping to yield and trait prediction

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Tong Wang
Ran Tong
Ting Xu
Yue Li
Yonghao Chen

Frontiers in Plant Science

doi 10.3389/fpls.2025.1732979

847 views

Original Research

Published on 29 Jan 2026

Transfer learning for improving generalizability in predicting soybean maturity date using UAV imagery

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Jing Zhou
Jianfeng Zhou
Andrew Scaboo
Eduardo Beche
Ziteng Xu
Zhou Zhang

Frontiers in Plant Science

doi 10.3389/fpls.2025.1720819

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Original Research

Published on 28 Jan 2026

PGCNet: a Transformer–CNN hybrid segmentation model for pine wilt disease identification

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Jiying Liu
Yaping Zhang
Xu Chen

Frontiers in Plant Science

doi 10.3389/fpls.2026.1760648

484 views

Original Research

Accepted on 27 Jan 2026

An intelligent method and platform for obtaining lettuce canopy coverage

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Hongbo Liu
Pan Zhang
Jishu Zheng

Frontiers in Plant Science

120 views

Original Research

Published on 27 Jan 2026

Detection of Taiqiu sweet persimmons during the color-transition period with an improved YOLO11-FC2T model and causal analysis

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Wenhui Dong
Huiqin Li
Lifei Gao
Pengzhi Hou
Yaqing Zhi
Xiaoying Zhang

Frontiers in Plant Science

doi 10.3389/fpls.2025.1742794

320 views

Original Research

Accepted on 26 Jan 2026

Improved YOLOv11n-seg for Impurity Detection in Mechanically Harvested Sugarcane

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Fengguang He
Sili Zhou
Pinlan Chen
Ganran Deng
Shaobo Feng
Guojie Li
Zhende Cui
Shuang Zheng
Ling Li
Bin Yan

Frontiers in Plant Science

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Original Research

Accepted on 26 Jan 2026

Estimating sorghum leaf dhurrin content using a handheld near infrared instrument

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Kamaranga H. Shantha Peiris
Scott Bean
Yves Yatou Emendack
Chad Hayes
Jacobo Sanchez

Frontiers in Plant Science

Original Research

Published on 26 Jan 2026

A hyperspectral imaging and machine learning approach for rapid and non-invasive diagnosis of cassava bacterial blight

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Ian Carlos Bispo Carvalho
Luciellen da Costa Ferreira
Ana Régia de Mendonça Neves
Alice Maria Silva Carvalho
Henrique Póvoa Rodrigues Lima
Maurício Rossato

Frontiers in Plant Science

doi 10.3389/fpls.2025.1707646

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Original Research

Published on 22 Jan 2026

Machine vision-based detection method for key phenotypic information of shiitake mushroom stipes

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Jiuxiao Zhao
Mingfei Wang
Zuolin Li
Qiuxiao Song
Cheng Chen
Guoqiang Guo
Jing Dong
Feifei Shan
Ruixue Xu
Wei Liu

Frontiers in Plant Science

doi 10.3389/fpls.2025.1695008

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Methods

Published on 22 Jan 2026

Providing maceration protocols for xylem and phloem research

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Eunice Romero
Mark Olson
Alí Segovia-Rivas
Jarmila Pittermann
Radek Jupa

Frontiers in Plant Science

doi 10.3389/fpls.2025.1740174

1,198 views

Original Research

Published on 22 Jan 2026

An improved YOLOv8n model for in-field detection of pests and diseases in pakchoi

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Yi Zhu
Yanlu Han
Yilu Yin
Shuo Zhao
Yubin Lan
Danfeng Huang

Frontiers in Plant Science

doi 10.3389/fpls.2025.1730683

471 views

Original Research

Accepted on 21 Jan 2026

Lightweight Plant Phenotypic Feature Extraction via Transferable Attention Head Pruning in Vision Transformers

in Technical Advances in Plant Science

Yongsheng Xie
Xiaoxiao Zeng
Rifeng Wang
Wenxin Li

Frontiers in Plant Science

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articles

ELGCot3D: a lightweight 3D cotton point cloud segmentation model based on EdgeConv-Local Attention-GCN and semantic feature enhancement

From sequencing to understanding: a grand challenge in genome-scale molecular and genetic analysis

Novel estimation of tomato soluble solids content using linearly transformed reflectance-based spectral indices

Citizen science in plant disease surveillance

A cost-effective dual reporter system in Nicotiana benthamiana

Establishment and comparative analysis of Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation systems for Actinidia valvata and Actinidia chinensis

Accurate Detection and Density Estimation of Peach Tree Inflorescences Using an Improved YOLOv11 Model

Cotton Boll Extraction and Single-Boll Weight Estimation Based on UAV Multispectral Imagery

Enabling rapid and accurate grand discrimination of flue-cured tobacco: a near-infrared hyperspectral and machine learning approach

HDA-YOLO: A Hierarchical Attention-Driven Dense Fusion Network for Rice Pest Detection in Complex Agricultural Environments

A wheat canopy albedo high-throughput phenotyping method and its relationship with canopy architecture and leaf properties

Real-Time On-Device Weed Identification Using a Hardware-Efficient Lightweight CNN

Artificial intelligence in plant science: from image-based phenotyping to yield and trait prediction

Transfer learning for improving generalizability in predicting soybean maturity date using UAV imagery

PGCNet: a Transformer–CNN hybrid segmentation model for pine wilt disease identification

An intelligent method and platform for obtaining lettuce canopy coverage

Detection of Taiqiu sweet persimmons during the color-transition period with an improved YOLO11-FC2T model and causal analysis

Improved YOLOv11n-seg for Impurity Detection in Mechanically Harvested Sugarcane

Estimating sorghum leaf dhurrin content using a handheld near infrared instrument

A hyperspectral imaging and machine learning approach for rapid and non-invasive diagnosis of cassava bacterial blight

Machine vision-based detection method for key phenotypic information of shiitake mushroom stipes

Providing maceration protocols for xylem and phloem research

An improved YOLOv8n model for in-field detection of pests and diseases in pakchoi

Lightweight Plant Phenotypic Feature Extraction via Transferable Attention Head Pruning in Vision Transformers