This review summarizes the research progress on flexible wearable sensors based on different plant signals and classifies them according to their functions: physical sensors, chemical sensors and electrophysiological sensors. Furthermore, the challenges currently faced by wearable plant sensors are presented and we propose a design framework for next-generation plant wearable sensors enabling continuous real-time plant health monitoring under field conditions.

A new study suggests that, in the case of global catastrophe, urban agriculture alone could sustain only about one fifth of the population of a temperate, median-sized city, but the whole city could be fed by also farming land within a short distance of the urban area. Matt Boyd of Adapt Research Ltd, New Zealand, and Nick Wilson of the University of Otago, New Zealand, present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS One on May 7, 2025.

New research has shown how small, inexpensive drones combined with free, open source software can be used by community forest organisations to calculate and monitor the amount of carbon stored in their forests.  

UC Riverside researchers have identified a chemical that kills about 95 percent of a western drywood termite colony without off-target effects on mammals.