González-Rodríguez, V.E.; Izquierdo-Bueno, I.; Cantoral, J.M.; Carbú, M.; Garrido, C. Artificial Intelligence: A Promising Tool for Application in Phytopathology. Horticulturae2024, 10, 197.
González-Rodríguez, V.E.; Izquierdo-Bueno, I.; Cantoral, J.M.; Carbú, M.; Garrido, C. Artificial Intelligence: A Promising Tool for Application in Phytopathology. Horticulturae 2024, 10, 197.
González-Rodríguez, V.E.; Izquierdo-Bueno, I.; Cantoral, J.M.; Carbú, M.; Garrido, C. Artificial Intelligence: A Promising Tool for Application in Phytopathology. Horticulturae2024, 10, 197.
González-Rodríguez, V.E.; Izquierdo-Bueno, I.; Cantoral, J.M.; Carbú, M.; Garrido, C. Artificial Intelligence: A Promising Tool for Application in Phytopathology. Horticulturae 2024, 10, 197.
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing approaches in plant disease management and phy-topathological research. This review analyzes current applications and future directions of AI in addressing evolving agricultural challenges. Plant diseases annually cause 10-16% yield losses in major crops, prompting urgent innovations. Artificial intelligence (AI) shows aptitude for auto-mated disease detection and diagnosis utilizing image recognition techniques, with reported accuracies exceeding 95% and surpassing human visual assessment. Forecasting models inte-grating weather, soil, and crop data enable preemptive interventions by predicting spa-tial-temporal outbreak risks weeks in advance at 81-95% precision, minimizing pesticide usage. Precision agriculture powered by AI optimizes data-driven, tailored crop protection strategies boosting resilience. Real-time monitoring leveraging AI discerns pre-symptomatic anomalies from plant and environmental data for early alerts. These applications highlight AI's proficiency in il-luminating opaque disease patterns within increasingly complex agricultural data. Machine learning techniques overcome human cognitive constraints by discovering multivariate correla-tions unnoticed before. AI is poised to transform in-field decision making around disease pre-vention and precision management. Overall, AI constitutes a strategic innovation pathway to strengthen ecological plant health management amidst climate change, globalization, and agri-cultural intensification pressures. With prudent and ethical implementation, AI-enabled tools promise to enable next-generation phytopathology, enhancing crop resilience worldwide.Artificial Intelligence, Phytopathology, Emerging Disease, Climate Change, Control diseases.
Keywords
Artificial Intelligence; Phytopathology; Emerging Disease; Climate Change; Control diseases
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Agricultural Science and Agronomy
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