Plant diseases cause significant reductions in agricultural productivity worldwide. Disease
symptoms have deleterious effects on the growth and development of crop plants, limiting …

Effective weed control can protect yields of cassava (Manihot esculenta) storage roots.
Farmers could benefit from using herbicide with a tolerant cultivar. We applied traditional …

Auxin is a key plant growth regulator that also impacts plant–pathogen interactions. Several
lines of evidence suggest that the bacterial plant pathogen P seudomonas syringae …

Cassava (Manihot esculenta) feeds c. 800 million people world‐wide. Although this crop
displays high productivity under drought and poor soil conditions, it is susceptible to disease, …

The plant hormone auxin is perceived by a family of F-box proteins called the TIR1/AFBs.
Phylogenetic studies reveal that these proteins fall into four clades in flowering plants called …

Plant disease symptoms exhibit complex spatial and temporal patterns that are challenging
to quantify. Image-based phenotyping approaches enable multidimensional characterization …

The plant hormone auxin is an important regulator of plant growth and development, as well
as plant-pathogen interactions. I investigated the roles of auxin during infection of the …

Cassava (Manihot esculenta) feeds approximately 800 million people worldwide. Although
this crop displays high productivity under drought and poor soil conditions, it is susceptible to …

Inspired by the aerial maneuvering ability of lizards, we present the design and control of
MSU (Michigan State University) tailbot - a miniature-tailed jumping robot. The robot can not …

Automated tasks play an important role in both consumer and industrial IoT environments. In
many scenarios, the IoT tasks are performed given certain conditions. To facilitate the tasks, …