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Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales, Alba J. Collart, Matthew G. Interis, Esther Mmenaa Agyemang‐Duah   +3 more
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The Genetics and Breeding of Fruit Trees

Journal of the American Pomological Society, 1953
The following quotation is the author's summary taken from a paper presented by M. B. Crane in 1952 at the 13th International Horticultural Congress in London: "Breeding experiments with fruit trees have been mainly carried out in the search for new forms of commercial value, and usually the families raised for this purpose have been small.
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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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The Effects of Biostimulants on the Physiological Processes of Yield Formation and Resistance of Apples to Spring Frosts

Horticulturae
The present research aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of new organo-mineral biostimulants in an apple orchard, including their relevance to spring frosts and to enhancing yield.
Zoya Evgen’evna Ozherelieva, Pavel Sergeevich Prudnikov, Anna Yur’evna Stupina, Anzhelika Olegovna Bolgova   +3 more
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Exploiting Ferroelectric and Spintronic Dynamics for Neural Network Computation

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Ferroelectric and spintronic devices, relying on the control of polarization and magnetization, offer intrinsically fast, durable, energy‐efficient, and low‐latency building blocks for analog in‐memory computing. The hysteretic dynamics of an order parameter are leveraged to provide nonvolatile, multistate memory and nonlinear switching. Brain‐inspired
Dashiell Harrison, Kevin Nadaud, Josquin Harrison, Guillaume F. Nataf, Laura Bégon‐Lours   +4 more
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A Soft Robotic Finger With Deep Learning‐Enhanced Tactile Sensing for Texture and Softness Recognition

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Inspired by human touch, a tendon‐driven soft robotic finger combines multimodal tactile sensing and deep learning to simultaneously perceive texture and softness on deformable surfaces. A CNN‐LSTM model fuses pressure, accelerometer, and gyroscope signals to accurately classify material properties, achieving up to 95.4% texture and 97.0% softness ...
Gorkem Anil Al, Arya Shabani, Nicos Hadjigeorgiou, James Fant‐Male   +3 more
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Cross‐Sectoral AI Integration Is Essential to Tackling Food Waste and Food Insecurity: A Roadmap for Developing Resilient Food Systems

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
As food insecurity and global food demands surge, artificial intelligence (AI)‐based technologies offer promising opportunities to reduce food loss and waste. In this perspective, current AI adoption across the food supply chain is assessed using various academic, industry, and policy sources.
Akansha Prasad, Hannah Mann, Lubna Najm, Shadman Khan, Carlos D. M. Filipe, Tohid F. Didar   +5 more
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Development of a digital monitoring system for fire blight in fruit orchards

Fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) is still one of the most dangerous diseases in the fruit production of cultivated apples and pears, as it can spread epidemically and cause enormous economic damage.
Fritzsche, Eric, Leipnitz, M., Maß, V., Seidl-Schulz, J., Reim, Stefanie, Geyer, M., Alirezazadeh, P., Pflanz, M.   +7 more
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Detecting the physiological and molecular mechanisms by which abscisic acid (ABA) regulates the consistency of sweet cherry fruit maturity

Scientific Reports
In the cultivation and production of sweet cherry, the cost of picking fruit is high due to inconsistency in the maturation period, which has affected the development of the cherry industry.
Qian Qiao, Bingxue Shen, Ke Lin, Dongzi Zhu, Po Hong, Lisi Zhang, Jiazheng Sun, Shan Sun, Yun Gao, Shizhong Zhang, Jiawei Wang, Qingzhong Liu   +11 more
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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
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