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Potential of Digital Thermography for Disease Control

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Infrared thermography is highly suitable for the detection of disease-induced changes in plant transpiration and water status. Depending on the host-pathogen system diseases can be detected at various stages of development. Pathogens attacking plant roots or colonizing the vascular system affect water uptake and translocation within the plant and cause a decrease in transpiration associated with an increase in leaf temperature . Diseases causing early malfunction of stomatal regulation produce pre-symptomatic modifications in transpiration, some affect cuticular transpiration when visible symptoms appear or only in later stages when tissue is severely damaged. Diseases without or with only minor effects on transpiration cannot be detected thermographically. In some host-pathogen systems a close relationship between disease severity and thermal effect exist which may be used for disease quantification. The low specificity of the signal limits the use of thermography for disease identification, however, this may be compensated by the use of patterns of leaf temperature. IR remote sensing has a large potential in disease forecasting and the definition of management zones because of its high sensitivity to changes in plant water relationships.

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Oerke, EC., Steiner, U. (2010). Potential of Digital Thermography for Disease Control. In: Oerke, EC., Gerhards, R., Menz, G., Sikora, R. (eds) Precision Crop Protection - the Challenge and Use of Heterogeneity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9277-9_11

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