植物科学与人工智能融合研究进展OA

Plant science is entering a new era characterized by the rapid accumulation of multi-scale biological data and increasing demands for understanding complex biological systems.Fundamental challenges remain in uncovering the mechanisms of trait formation,deciphering multilayered regulatory networks and environmental adaptive evolution,and intelligent design breeding.Rapid advances in artificial intelligence(AI)are reshaping life science research,driving a transition from traditional experiment-and data-driven research toward a new paradigm in which data,computational models,and biological mechanisms are integrated synergistically.To highlight recent progress at this interdisciplinary frontier,we organized the Special Issue on"Integration of Plant Science and Artificial Intelligence".It gathers 12 contribu-tions spanning theory,methodology,application,and education.The contributions emphasize multi-omics integration,complex trait analysis,AI-assisted phenotyping,and smart agriculture,reflecting current methodological advances and emerging research directions.We anticipate that this Special Issue will foster deeper integration between plant biology and AI,providing a platform to accelerate scientific discovery and contribute to food security and sustainable agriculture.