researchers at northwestern university are transforming complicated biotechnology into a simple an easy tool for farmers to test for crop disease with plant-dx.
researchers bring biotech to farmers worldwide with plant-dx
in 2018, family farming generated about 80 percent of the earth’s food. as climate change raises global temperatures and prompts extreme weather events, these small-scale operations will face surges in pests and crop disease.
in response, researchers at the northwestern university lucks lab have developed plant-dx, a mobile platform to help farmers test crops quickly and on-the-go. this november, the bill & melinda gates foundation awarded the lucks lab with the grand challenges explorations grant to further develop plant-dx into an accessible solution for farmers around the world.