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. 2022 Mar 21;18:35. doi: 10.1186/s13007-022-00853-7

Table 2.

Applications of sensor-based phenotyping of PPI

Sign/symptom Plant Pathogen Sensor / Vector Scale Reference
Pathogen signs Arabidopsis thaliana, Hordeum vulgare Fusarium graminearum expressing GFP Zeiss Stemi-C dissecting microscope with a 470 nm excitation filter and 535 nm emission filter Whole plants (At), detached spikes (Hv) [26]
Beta vulgaris L. Cercospora beticola Hyperspectral microscope (PFD V10E), motorized stage Individual lesions [22]
Cereals Blumeria graminis Monochrome CCD sensor, 4 channels captured ‘Macrobot’, robotic arm [21]
Nicotiana benthamiana Phytophthora infestans expressing RFP Monochrome camera with filter wheel and excitation lights (PathoScreen imaging system, Phenovation, the Netherlands) Detached leaves [28]
Nicotiana tabacum Tobacco mosaic virus expressing GFP RGB camera under UV illumination (Blak-Ray Model B 100AP) Detached leaves [27]
Phaseolus vulgaris Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola expressing lux-eYFP operon nightOWL LB 983 in vivo imaging system (Berthold Technologies, Germany), confocal laser scanning microscope Zeiss LSM 880 Detached leaves [34]
Triticum aestivum L. Fusarium graminearum X-ray CT, Biomedical Imaging and Therapy beamline (BMIT‐BM, 05B1‐1) Spikelet [114]
Vitis spp. Erysiphe necator RGB (Nikon D850), automated motorized stage Individual leaf discs, automated imaging [20]
Primary metabolism Arabidopsis thaliana Pseudomonas syrinae CF Imager (Technologica Ltd., UK), NPQ, fPSII, Fv/Fm Individual plants [149]
Cucumis melo Podosphaera xanthii Open FluorCam 700 MF (Photon System Instruments), NPQ, fPSII Individual leaves [54]
Hordeum vulgare Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei Chlorophyll Fluorometer IMAGING-PAM M-series (Walz, Germany) Individual leaves [150]
Lactuca sativa Bremia lactucae Open FluorCam 700 MF (Photon System Instruments), Fv/Fm Leaf discs [151]
Nicotiana benthamiana Pepper mild mottle virus FluorCam (Photon System Instruments), NPQ, fPSII Individual leaves [152]
Olea europaea Xylella fastidiosa Micro-hyperspectral imager (VNIR model, Headwall Photonics, USA), 400 – 885 nm, from aircraft 500 m above ground Orchards [48]
Oryza sativa Rhizoctonia solani Non-imaging NeoSpectra micro handheld spectrometer (SiWare Systems, Canada), 1348–2551 nm Individual leaf spots (non-imaging) [61]
Solanum tuberosum Phytophthora infestans, Alternaria solani Non-imaging field spectrometer SVC HR-1024i (350–2500 nm) (Spectra Vista Corporation, USA) Individual leaf spots (non-imaging) [153]
Secondary metabolism Beta vulgaris Cercospora beticola SWIR spectral camera, 970–2500 nm (HySpex SWIR-320 m-e line camera, Norsk Elektro Optikk A/S, Norway) Detached leaves [154]
Citrus sinensis, Citrus paradisi Candidatus Liberibacter spp. Non-imaging handheld Raman spectrometer (Resolve spectrometer equipped with 831-nm laser source, Agilent, USA) Detached leaves [86, 87, 90]
Hordeum vulgare Blumeria graminis f.sp. hordei UV line scanner, 250–500 nm (Headwall Photonics) Detached leaves [81]
Nicotiana benthamiana Pepper mild mottle virus Excitation with xenon-lamp + BP 340/75, imaging with CCD camera + BP 440/20 and BP 520/20 Individual leaves [152]
Triticum aestivum Puccinia triticina, Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici Non-imaging fiber-optic fluorescence spectrometer (IOM GmbH, Germany) combined with 337 nm pulsed N2 laser Individual leaf spots (non-imaging) [73]
Vitis vinifera Plasmopara viticola Macroscope (AZ100 multizoom, Nikon), ex. BP 340/26 and em. LP 371 Leaf parts [69]
Necrosis and chlorosis Arabidopsis thaliana Pseudomonas syringae RGB (Nikon D5200 DSLR) Seedlings growing in well-plates [117]
Arabidopsis thaliana Sclerotinia sclerotiorum RGB (USB camera, full HD 1080p) controlled by Raspberry Pi 3 Model B motherboards Detached leaves [115]
Beta vulgaris Cercospora beticola RGB (camera Baumer HXG-40), multispectral camera (6 bands of 10 nm between 450 and 850 nm, AIRPHEN) Phenomobile 1, 50 distance to canopy top (RGB), hexacaopter (multispectral) [119]
Triticum aestivum Mycosphaerella graminicola RGB (flatbed scanner) Detached leaves collected from field trial [23]
Zea mays Setosphaeria turcica RGB Drone, 6 m above ground [118, 120]
Thermal energy dissipation Cucumis sativus L. Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cucumerinum FLIR SC620 Individual leaves [123]
Ipomoea batatas L. Sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV), Sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus (SPCSV) Top-view thermal camera (FLIR A615), PlantScreen conveyor system, NaPPI, Helsinki Whole plant [132]
Nicotiana tabacum L. Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) Infrared imager (Agema THV900LW), Cartesian positioning system in imaging chamber Leaves [131]
Olea europaea L. Verticillium dahliae Temperature sensor (Apogee IRR-P), Fixed 1 m above canopy Single tree canopy [129]
Olea europaea L. Verticillium dahliae Broad-band thermal camera (FLIR SC655) on crewed aircraft 3000 ha, spatial resolution = 62 cm [130]
Structural changes Capsicum annuum Stemphylium lycopersici Laboratory-OCT system, 4096-pixel line scan camera (spl4096-140 km, Basler) Single leaves [134]
Malus domestica Marssonina coronaria Backpack-based OCT system, 2048-pixel line scan camera (spL2048-140 km, Basler, Germany) Single leaves [133]
Solanum tuberosum Streptomyces scabies Medical X-ray CT scanner (Toshiba Xvision high-resolution CT scanner) Single plants [135]
Triticum aestivum Fusarium graminearum Synchrotron-based phase contrast X-ray imaging with the Biomedical Imaging and Therapy beamline (BMIT‐BM, 05B1‐1) at the Canadian Light Source Single excised wheat spikes [114]