In the ancient craft of silk production, the health of a mulberry leaf has always stood between a farmer's labor and a silkworm's sustenance. Researchers at India's Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute have now trained an artificial intelligence system to read that health at a glance — not by cataloguing every blemish, but by rendering a judgment on the whole leaf, as a practiced eye would. Built on the YOLOv10 detection framework and refined with a custom feature-extraction module, the model matches or surpasses established benchmarks while remaining swift enough for use in th