The flowchart of panicle detection, flowering panicle identification, and individual panicle tracking. (A) Original high-resolution image. (B) Cutting into sub-images. (C) Manual annotation. (D) ...

Supported by the Panicle Analyzer software, EOPT accurately measures key traits like grain number, grain length, grain width, and panicle length, eliminating the need for traditional manual threshing ...

Intent on protecting the state’s commercial rice fields from a tiny but destructive bug known as the panicle rice mite, UC Davis is decontaminating 11 campus greenhouses where the mite was recently ...

Inflorescence architecture is a key agronomical factor determining grain yield, and thus has been a major target of crop domestication and improvement 1,2. Understanding the genetic basis of ...

Discovering how rice flower structures develop in response to environmental cues will help breeders increase the productivity of this crucial food crop. In a groundbreaking study, scientists uncovered ...

Agricultural engineers of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) have developed two new machines that could harvest rice faster and cheaper. These are the two-in-one panicle thresher-corn ...