There are certainly other attempts to apply machine learning and computer vision to keeping track of plant health, like Prospera, which has also raised $7 million in venture financing.
There's also significant investment in tools that will help manage crops, all the way down to cameras flying around on rails to keep track of plant health and augment the "crop walk".
Vegetable gardens are often planted in rows, which helps you keep track of which plants are which.
The project, which tracks populations of plants, as well as the effects of climate change and habitat loss, "has helped us target some things that have been in serious decline," Mr. Lorimer said.
You can enter the details of the plants in the app and it keeps track of each plant's health data, like chlorophyll levels, and the temperature of the plant and the soil.
The "Early Views of Island Life" and "Exploration" sections similarly track the flow of plants and people in the New World.
You've probably spent a lot of time keeping track of your plants and all the minor details, like the coloration of the leaves, in order to make sure they're healthy — but for professional growers in greenhouses, this means keeping track of thousands of plants all at once.
The target construct contains hptII (hygromycin phosphotransferase II) for selection of transgenic plants and was intentionally placed outside of the recombination recognition sites (and thus is not excised by phiC31) to aid the tracking of excised plants.
Cannabis "off-licences" – separate from retail chemists, "who may feel it is in conflict with their duty of medical care" – and online retail sites would be supplied by UK-based producers licensed by a regulatory authority, with a "seed to sale" tracking of each plant grown.
This methodology allows tracking of individual plant development, which was not possible in earlier techniques.
