Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman, Preetom S. Arko, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Mohammad Ashik Iqbal Khan et al.
Accurate and timely detection of diseases and pests in rice plants can help farmers in applying timely treatment on the plants and thereby can reduce the economic losses substantially. Recent developments in deep learning-based convolutional neural networks (CNN) have greatly improved image classifi...
Kazi Md. Rokibul Alam, Nazmul Siddique, Hojjat Adeli
This paper presents a novel dynamic ensemble learning (DEL) algorithm for designing ensemble of neural networks (NNs). DEL algorithm determines the size of ensemble, the number of individual NNs employing a constructive strategy, the number of hidden nodes of individual NNs employing a constructive–...
Nazma Shaheen, Nafis Md. Irfan, Ishrat Nourin Khan, Md. Saiful Islam et al.
The presence of toxic heavy metals such as As, Cd, Pb, Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, and Zn in nationally representative samples of highly consumed fruits and vegetables was determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Their concentrations exceeded the maximum allowable concentration (MAC)...
Pamela A. Matson, Rosamond L. Naylor, Iván Ortiz‐Monasterio
Nitrogen fertilization is a substantial source of nitrogen-containing trace gases that have both regional and global consequences. In the intensive wheat systems of Mexico, typical fertilization practices lead to extremely high fluxes of nitrous oxide (N2O) and nitric oxide (NO). In experiments, low...
Tofazzal Islam, Daniel Croll, Pierre Gladieux, Darren M. Soanes et al.
BACKGROUND: In February 2016, a new fungal disease was spotted in wheat fields across eight districts in Bangladesh. The epidemic spread to an estimated 15,000 hectares, about 16 % of the cultivated wheat area in Bangladesh, with yield losses reaching up to 100 %. Within weeks of the onset of the ep...
Andrew A. Meharg, Gareth J. Norton, Claire Deacon, Paul N. Williams et al.
Cereal grains are the dominant source of cadmium in the human diet, with rice being to the fore. Here we explore the effect of geographic, genetic, and processing (milling) factors on rice grain cadmium and rice consumption rates that lead to dietary variance in cadmium intake. From a survey of 12 c...
M. Hossain Ali, M.S.U. Talukder
Ravi P. Singh, P. K. Singh, Jessica Rutkoski, David Hodson et al.
Wheat is grown worldwide in diverse geographical regions, environments, and production systems. Although many diseases and pests are known to reduce grain yield potential and quality, the three rusts and powdery mildew fungi have historically caused major crop losses and continue to remain economica...
N Akter, MR Islam
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar, Masayuki Fujita
K. L. Heong, B. Hardy, Heong, K.L., Hardy, B.
Rice is the staple food for around half the world’s people and about three-quarters of a billion of the world’s poor depend on rice. Each year, an additional 50 million rice consumers are added to the world population, which means that rice production will need to increase markedly. Lowland rice pro...
Leonard Gianessi
Herbicide use is increasingly being adopted around the world. Many developing countries (India, China, Bangladesh) are facing shortages of workers to hand weed fields as millions of people move from rural to urban areas. In these countries, herbicides are far cheaper and more readily available than ...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar, Md. Mahabub Alam, Prasanta Bhowmik et al.
Salinity is one of the rising problems causing tremendous yield losses in many regions of the world especially in arid and semiarid regions. To maximize crop productivity, these areas should be brought under utilization where there are options for removing salinity or using the salt-tolerant crops. ...
D. F. Tabbal, B.A.M. Bouman, S. I. Bhuiyan, Evangeline B. Sibayan et al.
H.K. Das, Amal K. Mitra, Probal Sengupta, Amir Hossain et al.
Arsenic contaminating groundwater in Bangladesh is one of the largest environmental health hazards in the world. Because of the potential risk to human health through consumption of agricultural produce grown in fields irrigated with arsenic contaminated water, we have determined the level of contam...