New information technology helps to bring in bumper crops

Researchers are developing a new information technology that can help scientists predict how crops will respond to different environmental conditions. This will help to yield bumper crops with better quality, such as creating a more delicious and longer-lasting tomato variety.

The technology is part of a study at a new £ 1.7 million Syngenta University center, located in Imperial University, London. Here, researchers from Imperial and Syngenta are working together to improve the quality of agricultural products.

Scientists are trying their best to create better-quality crops, such as the creation of high-drought tolerant wheat or eco-friendly pesticides. school However, in order to do this, they need to predict the genes of how plants respond when they meet different chemicals or different environmental conditions.

Professor Stephen Muggleton, director of the new center for computer science at Imperial University London, said: 'We believe our new computer technology is a revolution in agricultural research by it will make the process faster than traditional technologies currently being applied. We hope the new technology will help farmers to have better crops, higher nutritional quality and longer crops. "

The researchers created a prototype of new technology and are currently being tested . Instead of a few months, within a few minutes it was possible to analyze how genes are responsible for different processes in the plant and how different genes interact with each other. . This technology uses a computer program based on mechanical recognition, which is a complex algorithm that allows computers to recognize based on the data being analyzed. Researchers believe that the technology will recognize complex models from data to find valuable information about crops that may have previously taken months or even years to find. get that information.

New information technology helps to bring in bumper crops. (Photo: ODT)

The ability to recognize the mechanics of new technologies means that researchers can have a clear understanding of different crops even though there is a lack of some information on some aspects of the inner workings of those plants.

In the past, the creation of mathematical models of plant reactions has spent a lot of time and extremely difficult because of the lack of all information about plants, so those models become vague and inaccurate.

In the first project using this technology, scientists will observe how the different genes will affect the process of a tomato hardening and altering the smell, and the process of peeling fruit. turn from green to red.

The researchers hope that the technology could help them create tomato varieties that taste better, ripen earlier, and harden longer to be easily transported to the point of sale. These points may be particularly useful for developing countries where bad transportation networks can quickly destroy fruits and vegetables.

For another project, researchers are testing the safety of pesticides produced in Syngenta, before going into production. This technology allows them to be able to create models to show whether the proposed crop protection drug affects metabolism and metabolism, which are responsible for energy metabolism in the plant body.

The software created by researchers at Imperial University is expected to be publicly available to the public over the next four years.