A microneedle-based drug delivery technique for plants that can deliver controlled amounts of agrochemicals to plant tissues could be used to improve crop quality and disease management. The work was developed at SMART, MIT, and Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory.
Researchers at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) have developed a rapid Raman spectroscopy-based method for the detection and quantification of early bacterial infection in crops, which can be critical for the progress of plant disease management and agricultural productivity.