RGB-based phenotyping of foliar disease severity under controlled conditions

Response of Strawberry cv. Sabrina under Deficit Fertigation Conditions to Foliar Application of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles

Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Dutch) is a widely grown fruit crop in the world due to its high aroma, taste, and nutritional value. In this study, the effect of foliar application of titanium dioxide nanoparticles on phytochemical modifications of strawberry cv. Sabrina under deficit fertigation conditions was investigated. The interaction effect of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (0, 6 and 12...

Image-based phenotyping of plant disease symptoms

Plant diseases cause significant reductions in agricultural productivity worldwide. Disease symptoms have deleterious effects on the growth and development of crop plants, limiting yields and making agricultural products unfit for consumption. For many plant-pathogen systems, we lack knowledge of the physiological mechanisms that link pathogen infection and the production of disease symptoms in...

Image-based Plant Disease Phenotyping 2

Leaf Segmentation under Loosely Controlled Conditions

We propose a robust and accurate method for segmenting specular objects acquired under loosely controlled conditions. We focus here on leaves because leaf segmentation plays a crucial role for plant identification, and accurately capturing the local boundary structures is critical for the success of the recognition. Popular techniques are based on Expectation-Maximization and estimate the color...

Herbicide Efficacy under Semi-controlled Conditions

Oneof the main causes of poorweed control on sugarcane farms is the occurrence of weed germination in periods during which demands on the farm's resources are at a maximum and during which wetconditions may prevent timely herbicide application or other weed control operations. It would therefore facilitate weed control if weed germination could be predicted from meteorological data and a knowle...