Efforts to improve plants against climate change

San Diego: Scientists have begun to explore new methods with the help of artificial intelligence to enhance the capabilities of plants with the intention of fighting climate change.

A team of researchers from the Salk Institute, based in the American city of San Diego, worked on increasing the carbon distillation capacity of plant roots in a study.

SLEAP, an artificial intelligence tool used by scientists, was originally designed to observe animal movements and was later adapted to analyze plant roots by Salk Fellow Talmo Pereira and Professor Wolfgang Busch. took

The latest research, published in Plant Phenomics, presents a new protocol for an artificial intelligence tool to accurately measure root properties that were previously difficult to observe.

Talmo Pereira said that scientists are not just sharing fields, they are expanding them into something that will go beyond their individual collaborations.

Elizabeth Berrigan, lead author of the study, said that with Sleep-Roots, the scientists identified root systems 1.5 times faster than before, trained their AI models 10 times faster, and predicted new data 10 times faster. Multiply faster.

The team has successfully tested the method on a number of plants, including important crops such as soybean, rice and canola.