App made by high school students helps detect plant diseases
PlantMD, an app made by high school students, Shada Mehdi and Nile Ravanell, has been designed to detect plant diseases in real time. It has been built on Google's machine learning library for data programming, TensorFlow. PlantMD app was inspired by Penn State University's research unit PlantVillage which created an app to assist farmers in Africa to grow better crops.