Current understanding, challenges and perspective on portable systems applied to plant monitoring and precision agriculture

DL Presti, J Di Tocco, C Massaroni, S Cimini… - Biosensors and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The devastating effects of global climate change on crop production and exponential
population growth pose a major challenge to agricultural yields. To cope with this problem …

Emerging wearable sensors for plant health monitoring

G Lee, Q Wei, Y Zhu - Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging plant diseases, caused by pathogens, pests, and climate change, are critical
threats to not only the natural ecosystem but also human life. To mitigate crop loss due to …

Flexible wearables for plants

CC Qu, XY Sun, WX Sun, LX Cao, XQ Wang, ZZ He - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The excellent stretchability and biocompatibility of flexible sensors have inspired an
emerging field of plant wearables, which enable intimate contact with the plants to …

Non-destructive technologies for plant health diagnosis

MCY Ang, TTS Lew - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As global population grows rapidly, global food supply is increasingly under strain. This is
exacerbated by climate change and declining soil quality due to years of excessive fertilizer …

Sensors key to advances in precision agriculture

R Bogue - Sensor Review, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to illustrate the growing role that sensors play in agriculture, with an
emphasis on precision agricultural practices. Design/methodology/approach Following a …

Compliant plant wearables for localized microclimate and plant growth monitoring

JM Nassar, SM Khan, DR Villalva, MM Nour… - npj Flexible …, 2018 - nature.com
The microclimate surrounding a plant has major effect on its health and photosynthesis
process, where certain plants struggle in suboptimal environmental conditions and …

Emerging technologies for monitoring plant health in vivo

JM Roper, JF Garcia, H Tsutsui - ACS omega, 2021 - ACS Publications
In the coming decades, increasing agricultural productivity is all-important. As the global
population is growing rapidly and putting increased demand on food supply, poor soil …

Abaxial leaf surface-mounted multimodal wearable sensor for continuous plant physiology monitoring

G Lee, O Hossain, S Jamalzadegan, Y Liu, H Wang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Wearable plant sensors hold tremendous potential for smart agriculture. We report a lower
leaf surface-attached multimodal wearable sensor for continuous monitoring of plant …

Sensing technologies for precision specialty crop production

WS Lee, V Alchanatis, C Yang, M Hirafuji… - … and electronics in …, 2010 - Elsevier
With the advances in electronic and information technologies, various sensing systems have
been developed for specialty crop production around the world. Accurate information …

Soil sensors and plant wearables for smart and precision agriculture

H Yin, Y Cao, B Marelli, X Zeng, AJ Mason… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Soil sensors and plant wearables play a critical role in smart and precision agriculture via
monitoring real‐time physical and chemical signals in the soil, such as temperature …