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When your crops appear stressed, how can you decipher the root cause of the ailment?
Are they simply “under the weather” from scorching heat? Have insects burrowed into the stems, or are they making a salad bar of the foliage? Could this be the early stages of a viral, bacterial or fungal infection?
All this uncertainty can make a farmer more stressed than the plants themselves.
“Farming requires a lot of guesswork, particularly fungicide applications. There’s a lot of uncertainty about whether to apply, what to apply and when to apply fungicide,” said Sean Yokomizo, spokesman with InnerPlant.
Founded in 2018, InnerPlant is eliminating guesswork around fungicide application through its biosensing capability that is rooted in the plant’s physiology. The technology has been developed by teams of biologists and physiologists in the company’s laboratories at Davis, California.
By combining biosensors with satellite telecommunications, they are enabling plants to communicate when they are under attack of a foliar fungal pathogen.
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