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However, practical application in natural orchard environments remains challenging because of complex backgrounds, large variation in symptom scale, strong interclass similarity, and limited edge computing resources.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this study, a lightweight object detection model, SKM-YOLOv11, was developed based on YOLOv11n for citrus leaf disease recognition in natural scenes. A self-built dataset was constructed from public images and field images, containing 6414 images across six classes. StarNet-S050 was introduced as the backbone, C3k2-Star was designed to enhance feature fusion across scales, and a lightweight shared detection head, MNS-Head, was constructed to reduce prediction redundancy.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Compared with YOLOv11n, SKM-YOLOv11 increased Precision, Recall, and mAP @0.5 by 2.92, 1.47, and 0.95 percentage points, respectively. Meanwhile, FLOPs, parameter count, and model size were reduced by 31.7%, 32.7%, and 34.55%, respectively. Edge deployment on Jetson Orin NX Super achieved an inference speed of 72.45 frames per second.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The proposed model has strong potential for real-time citrus disease screening on resource-constrained devices and provides a feasible solution for edge-based intelligent disease management in natural orchards.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpls.2026.1896487","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,3]],"date-time":"2026-08-03T05:31:22Z","timestamp":1785735082000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Deep learning enables edge deployment for citrus leaf disease recognition in natural orchard scenes"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Zhaobo","family":"Huang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Smart Crop Production, Yunnan Agricultural University","place":["Kunming, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shitong","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Smart Crop Production, Yunnan Agricultural University","place":["Kunming, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chao","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Smart Crop Production, Yunnan Agricultural University","place":["Kunming, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yanchao","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Smart Crop Production, Yunnan Agricultural University","place":["Kunming, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Peixuan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Smart Crop Production, Yunnan Agricultural University","place":["Kunming, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wenfeng","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Smart Crop Production, Yunnan Agricultural University","place":["Kunming, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Huan","family":"Zou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Smart Crop Production, Yunnan Agricultural University","place":["Kunming, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"5009412","DOI":"10.1109\/TIM.2025.3541805","article-title":"CCA-YOLO: Channel and coordinate aware based YOLO for photovoltaic cell defect detection in electroluminescence images","volume":"74","author":"Bao","year":"2025","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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