Environmental conditions can cause damaging stress to plants, posing challenges for home gardeners and farmers. Therefore, ...

In several experiments, the wearable accurately identified the presence of hydrogen peroxide in groups of plants exposed to a ...

As spring warms the soil, gardeners begin the enjoyable and satisfying work of transferring seedlings and young starts into ...

Plants send distress signals when under attack from pests, drought, or disease, but these signals are often invisible to the ...

Now, researchers reporting in ACS Sensors have created a wearable patch for plants that quickly senses stress and relays the information to a grower. The electrochemical sensor attaches directly to ...

Now, researchers reporting in ACS Sensors have created a wearable patch for plants that quickly senses stress and relays the information to a grower. The electrochemical sensor attaches directly ...

This reusable patch (shown on the underside of a tobacco leaf) could help growers make decisions earlier to maintain the health of their crops through earlier detection of plant stress.