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RGB and Spectral Root Imaging for Plant Phenotyping and Physiological Research: Experimental Setup and Imaging Protocols

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Published on: August 8, 2017

Image-based plant wilting estimation.

Changye Yang¹, Sriram Baireddy², Valérian Méline²

¹Video and Image Processing Laboratory (VIPER), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 465 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA. ace@ecn.purdue.edu.

|May 30, 2023

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New metrics accurately quantify plant wilting from environmental stress using RGB images. This aids in identifying genetic resistance for developing resilient crops against drought, heat, and pathogens.

Keywords:

Image processing Machine learning Wilt estimation

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Area of Science:

Agricultural Science
Plant Pathology
Genetics

Background:

Environmental stresses (climate, pathogens) threaten agriculture.
Developing stress-resilient crops requires accurate quantification of plant phenotypic responses.
Plant wilting is a key response to abiotic (heat, drought) and biotic (pathogen) stresses.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a set of RGB image-based metrics for quantifying plant wilting.
To assess the utility of these metrics in identifying genetic resistance to plant stresses.

Main Methods:

Development of RGB image-based metrics to quantify plant wilting.
Testing metrics on tomato plants inoculated with Ralstonia solanacearum (bacterial wilt).
Testing metrics on soybean plants exposed to water stress.

Main Results:

The developed metrics accurately predict expert-assigned visual wilting scores in both tomato and soybean.
Metrics captured genetic differences in bacterial wilt resistance among tomato genotypes.
Metrics effectively quantified the impact of water stress on soybean.

Conclusions:

RGB image-based wilting metrics provide a robust method for quantifying plant stress responses.
These metrics are applicable across different plant species and stress types (biotic and abiotic).
The metrics can aid in genomic studies to identify genes for plant stress resistance.