Parallel Seeds: From Foundation Models to Foundation Intelligence for Agricultural Sustainability
Laiyi Fu, Shunkang Ling, Danyang Wu, Mengzhen Kang, Fei-Yue Wang, Hequan Sun · IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica · 2025
The development of agriculture faces significant challenges due to population growth, climate change, land depletion, and environmental pollution, threatening global food security [1]. This necessitates the development of sustainable agriculture, where a fundamental step is crop breeding to improve agronomic or economic traits, e.g., increasing yields of crops while decreasing resource usage and minimizing pollution to the environment [2].