When you think about agriculture, what comes to mind? Tractors? Fields of corn? Big red barns? Often we don’t think of computers. But computers and technology are playing a huge role in making our food system more sustainable and reliable. In the past few decades, high-tech machinery and robotics have changed the agroindustry. High-tech farming is making our crops more resilient against pathogens, harvest times more precise, and food yields more robust. Next-generation sequencing and machine learning now make high-tech advances possible at the genome level, particularly when untangling plant-microbe interactions. As technology advances, we can leverage these tools to promote sustainable agricultural practices.
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Source: Phys.org