Melen Leclerc

Plant architecture as a tool to mitigate late blight: significant but variable contributions of erect, aerated potato canopies over six years of field trials

This study evaluates the effectiveness of different potato canopy architectures in reducing late blight over six years, finding that canopy closure at inoculation significantly impacts disease progression.

Text guidance is powerful but prompt-sensitive for weakly-supervised leaf symptom segmentation

The paper evaluates text-guided segmentation using SAM3 for weakly supervised leaf symptom segmentation, finding text guidance matches or outperforms conventional methods but is prompt-sensitive, with hybrid approaches improving robustness.

Spatio-temporal modeling of host-pathogen interactions using level set method

This paper develops a spatio-temporal model for plant disease phenotyping using image processing and the level set method to track lesion progression and host-pathogen interactions.