B. Kannan

Benchmarking YOLO Object Detectors for Blackgram Weed Detection: Accuracy, Generalization, and Deployment Trade-offs

In blackgram (Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper) cultivation, weeds compete with the crop for nutrients, water, light, and space, reducing yield by up to 68.1% and increasing reliance on manual or chemical weed control. Manual weeding is labour-intensive, time-consuming, and increasingly impractical; hence, automated weed detect...

Urban heat island dynamics and thermal resilience assessment using geospatial techniques and InVEST urban cooling model: a case study of Coimbatore City, Tamil Nadu, India

Biodiversity and genetic improvement of Moringa oleifera: traditional breeding and genome editing strategies for reducing anti-nutritional factors

This review synthesizes current knowledge on moringa botany, crop diversity and summarizes genetic and biotechnological approaches, including omics resources, conventional breeding, microbial fermentation, and emerging genome-editing strategies, to improve yield and nutritional quality while reducing ANFs.