Understanding the potential applications of Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture Sector
March 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been extensively applied in farming recently. To cultivate healthier crops, manage pests, monitor soil and growing conditions, analyse data for farmers, and enhance...
Development of novel pyridine-based agrochemicals: A review
March 2025
Pyridine-based agrochemical products have become the most commercially successful in the 21st century. About half of the agrochemicals with pyridine scaffold were released, registered or invented only...
Peptides, new tools for plant protection in eco-agriculture
March 2023
As important physiological regulators, peptides have been used in many fields including medicine, cosmetics, healthcare products, animal nutrition and health, and plant nutrition and protection. In...
Synthetic biology: A powerful booster for future agriculture
September 2022
Abstract: Future agricultural development needs to solve the food security crisis caused by the global food shortage and the environmental demand for green and sustainable technology. The vigorous development...
Palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings in the synthesis of agrochemicals
December 2022
Palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings have played an increasingly important role in the synthesis of agrochemicals. In this review, the applications of palladium-catalyzed Heck reaction, Suzuki-Miyaura...
Spray-induced gene silencing in phytopathogen: Mechanisms, applications, and progress
December 2024
Phytopathogens can continuously cause serious losses worldwide to crop, fruit, and vegetable yields. The excessive use of conventional fungicides in pathogen management has raised severe environmental...
Advances in controlled release systems for sustainable crop production: A review of nano-, micro-, and macro-formulations
September 2025
The high necessity to develop novel and optimized technologies for crop production is very high due to the exponential growth in term of world population of the last years. In this field a novel use...
Nanoparticle-loaded dsRNA delivery system for pesticides: status and perspective
September 2025
The integration of RNA interference (RNAi) technology with nanotechnology shows significant potential in overcoming the limitations of traditional double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) delivery systems, thereby...
From cultivation to Consumption: Evaluating the effects of nano fertilizers on food quality and safety
September 2025
Nanofertilizers represent a breakthrough in sustainable agriculture, offering innovative solutions to improve nutrient efficiency, crop productivity, and environmental resilience. Engineered at the...
Antimicrobial metabolites produced by the plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR): Bacillus and Pseudomonas
September 2024
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) such as Bacillus and Pseudomonas have drawn broad attention and interest due to their agricultural benefits. One of the major benefits of PGPR lies at their...
Smart agriculture and nanotechnology: Technology, challenges, and new perspective
June 2024
In the recent past, much nanotechnology research has been done in an effort to increase agricultural productivity. The Green Revolution led to the careless use of pesticides and artificial fertilizers,...
Biosensor for agriculture and food safety: Recent advances and future perspectives
September 2022
Climate change and the growing world population leading to agriculture and food safety are global challenges facing humanity, while biosensors have long been regarded as one of the powerful tools for...
Research and development trends in plant growth regulators
March 2024
Continued population growth and limited land availability will facilitate the utilization of plant growth regulators (PGRs) in sustainable agriculture to enhance crop yields. The PGRs industry has progressed...
PDAI: A green pesticide molecule design technology platform driven by high-performance computing and artificial intelligence
June 2025
Pesticides are integral to agricultural productivity and food security. Despite the notable advancements in Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD) and Artificial Intelligence Drug Discovery (AIDD) in pharmaceuticals,...
Mandimycin: A phospholipid-targeting natural polyene macrolide overcoming multidrug resistance in invasive fungal infections
September 2025
Developing novel anti-infective drugs is essential to combat antimicrobial resistance, address emerging pathogens, and safeguard global health against evolving infectious threats. A recent publication...
Small-giants in agriculture: How can nanoparticles improve cereal biofortification?
September 2025
Micronutrient deficiency is a significant global issue that results in diets lacking adequate vitamins and minerals. Low nutrient levels are primarily attributed to crops cultivated in soils with insufficient...
Genetically encoded biosensors for spatiotemporal monitoring of plant proteins in growth and stress responses
September 2025
Genetically encoded biosensors are powerful tools for monitoring plant proteins, which could offer high spatial and temporal resolution and help reveal the molecular mechanisms underlying plant growth...
Melatonin—Angel of plant growth regulation and protection
June 2025
Melatonin (N-Acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine), an endogenously synthesized indoleamine, exerts pleiotropic effects in plant physiology by interacting with other phytohormones, thereby synergistically regulating...
AI-driven drug discovery from natural products
September 2024
The latest review published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery by Michael W. Mullowney and co-authors focuses on the use of artificial intelligence techniques, specifically machine learning, in natural...
Scenario-oriented nanopesticides: Shaping nanopesticides for future agriculture
December 2024
Nanopesticides, as a promising technology, bring scientific and technological impetus to sustainable development and green revolution of agriculture. The excellent physicochemical properties, beneficial...
Recent advances in the natural products-based lead discovery for new agrochemicals
December 2023
Crops will be harmed by fungi, pests and weeds during their growth. In the past half century, scientists have conducted in-depth research on natural products extracted from microorganisms, plants or...
cAMP: the true second messenger in transcriptional auxin signaling
September 2025
Auxins were the first of the major plant hormones and played key roles in plant growth and development. Auxin triggered gene expression through several mechanisms. The canonical textbook model is that...
Exploration and development of artificially synthesized plant growth regulators
March 2024
Plant growth regulators (PGRs) are a critical regulatory factor that influences plant development and against abiotic or biotic stress. The chemical synthesis of phytohormone analogues represents an...
Recent developments in the synthesis of pharmacological alkyl phosphonates
March 2025
Organophosphate analogues are commonly occurring structural features that are widely present in numerous natural substances, biologically active molecules and modern pharmaceutical compounds. The development...
Crystal engineering in the development of improved pesticide products
September 2022
Pesticides might be the only group of poisonous chemicals that are widely sprayed into the environment, but the use of pesticides is inevitable for crop protection and infectious disease control. When...