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Intercomparison of Machine Learning Algorithms for Remote Sensing-based In-season Crop Mapping
arXiv:2606.05731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-season crop type mapping is critical for food security in the face of increasingly extreme climate-related threats to crops. Currently, the USDA Cropland Data Layer provides crop type labels at 30m resolution and is available the February after harvest, but no product exists that maps crop types before harvest with satisfactory accuracy that would allow emergency managers to respond to crop threats in near real time.
'All-in-one' platform developed for multiple trait stacking in crops
'All-in-one' platform developed for multiple trait stacking in crops Gaby Clark Scientific Editor Alexander Pol Deputy Editor A major goal of modern crop breeding is to efficiently combine multiple desirable traits by "stacking" the favorable gene variants (alleles) that contribute to those traits in a single crop variety. However, current strategies are often time-consuming and inefficient. Now, a team led by Gao Caixia at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese...
Hail conditions on the move as winter crops face rising risk
Hail conditions on the move as winter crops face rising risk Lisa Lock Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor A hailstorm can undo a season's work in minutes. It can strike quickly and unevenly, shredding wheat, bruising fruit, flattening crops—while also leaving neighboring paddocks untouched. In a new Nature Climate Change study, scientists from UNSW Sydney say the geography and seasonality of that risk is changing.
Outback council hopes sorghum crop will reduce pressure on ratepayers
Richmond Shire Council backs sorghum as higher-return alternative to grazing Mon 1 Jun 2026 at 11:35am An outback Queensland council is growing its own crops to help pay for a more livable community for local ratepayers. The Richmond Shire Council is anticipating its coffers will soon be boosted by up to $500,000, depending on the profit made by this season's sorghum crop growing on the town common. Thirteen hundred hectares of grain sorghum was sown by the local council in January on a...
Comparative Proteomics Across Tissues and Crop Agroecosystems Reveals Agricultural Stressor Responses in the Western Honey Bee
Maintaining honey bee health in crop production systems is increasingly difficult because worker bees encounter multiple chemical and biological pressures from pesticides and pathogens. How these field-realistic pressures affect molecular physiology across functionally distinct tissues remains poorly understood. Here, we tested whether tissue-resolved proteomics could separate stable tissue-specific patterns from crop-associated molecular changes.
How drought rewires roots, cutting iron uptake across major food crops
How drought rewires roots, cutting iron uptake across major food crops Sadie Harley Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor New research by scientists at the University of Calgary has found that plants, ranging from canola to rice to tomatoes, actively shut down their own ability to take up iron when they experience drought. It's a finding that could have implications for the nutritional value of agricultural crops. The study, published in the journal Cell, questions whether plants...
'Not enough' bees for crop pollination as parasite takes over
Crop failure fears as deadly bee parasite wipes out hives and forces beekeepers to quit Thu 4 Jun 2026 at 10:59am In short: A new report has predicted a shortfall of close to 300,000 beehives for this year's peak crop pollination season in August, as the deadly parasite varroa mite wipes out bees. The cost of managing varroa and the development of insecticide resistance is forcing half of Australia's beekeepers to quit. Industry groups and researchers are developing a national strategy to...
ShotCrop$^3$: Cropping Human-Centric Images into Cinematic Triple-Shot Compositions
arXiv:2606.05635v1 Announce Type: Prior work on aesthetic composition typically produces a single aesthetically pleasing crop, overlooking the narrative value of composing multiple shots from one scene. In practice, multi-shot composition is critical for downstream creative workflows: commercial posters often require multiple crops with different emphases (e.g., context, subject, and emotion/product details) to present key story beats.
Crop Recommendation and Agricultural Query Answering System Using Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks and Hybrid Retrieval Augmentation
Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a unified system designed to support precision agriculture by integrating advanced weather prediction, crop recommendation, and a question-answering tool for farmers. We propose two deep learning models -- a Transformer-based Graph Neural Network and a Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network (STGCN) -- to forecast weather conditions for the next 30 days using data from 1,359 locations in Nepal. The STGCN outperforms the Transformer-based...
Recovered wild maize gene boosts crop protein without yield loss
Recovered wild maize gene boosts crop protein without yield loss Gaby Clark Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor Maize (Zea mays L.) plays an important role in global food security. During 9,000 years of maize domestication and breeding, however, protein content was not a major breeding target. Consequently, many beneficial gene variants associated with higher protein content were gradually lost from cultivated maize.