plant monitoring

Microneedle Sensors for Plant Ion Monitoring: A Step Towards Smart Agriculture

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Microneedle Sensors for Plant Ion Monitoring: A Step Towards Smart Agriculture

Microneedles With the increasing global demand for food and the unprecedented pressure on agricultural systems due to environmental challenges, understanding the role of ions (i.e., key nutrients) in crop productivity has become more important than ever.Unfortunately, current tools for plant ion analysis rely on destructive sap collection, which cannot capture the dynamic changes in ion … Read more

Real-time Monitoring of Crop Health with Leaf-mounted Sensors

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Real-time Monitoring of Crop Health with Leaf-mounted Sensors

When it comes to monitoring crop health, aerial images taken from planes can only tell you so much. This is where a new type of spectral sensor comes into play, as it is directly mounted on the underside of a plant’s leaf. This device was developed by Ko-ichiro Miyamoto, Kaori Kohzuma, and their colleagues at … Read more