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Drones, DNA, and weather: A phase-oriented hybrid engine predicts sugar beet disease

Strategic angle: A new generation of smart disease forecasting may help combat a fungus that threatens sugar beet crops.

Editorial StaffApril 7, 20261 min read

Combines drone imagery, weather data, and qPCR-based air sampling.

Aims to reduce crop loss from a devastating fungus.

Published in the journal Phytopathology.