Challenges and opportunities in machine-augmented plant stress phenotyping

A Singh, S Jones, B Ganapathysubramanian… - Trends in Plant …, 2021 - cell.com
Plant stress phenotyping is essential to select stress-resistant varieties and develop better
stress-management strategies. Standardization of visual assessments and deployment of …

Plant disease severity estimated visually: a century of research, best practices, and opportunities for improving methods and practices to maximize accuracy

CH Bock, KS Chiang, EM Del Ponte - Tropical Plant Pathology, 2022 - Springer
Plant disease quantification, mainly the intensity of disease symptoms on individual units
(severity), is the basis for a plethora of research and applied purposes in plant pathology …

Understanding the ramifications of quantitative ordinal scales on accuracy of estimates of disease severity and data analysis in plant pathology

KS Chiang, CH Bock - Tropical plant pathology, 2022 - Springer
The severity of plant diseases, traditionally defined as the proportion of the plant tissue
exhibiting symptoms, is a key quantitative variable to know for many diseases but is prone to …

Accuracy of plant specimen disease severity estimates: concepts, history, methods, ramifications and challenges for the future.

CH Bock, CKS Chiang KuoSzu, EM Del Ponte - CABI Reviews, 2016 - cabidigitallibrary.org
Abstract Knowledge of the extent of the symptoms of a plant disease, generally referred to as
severity, is a key to both fundamental and applied aspects of plant pathology. Most …

How much do standard area diagrams improve accuracy of visual estimates of the percentage area diseased? A systematic review and meta-analysis

EM Del Ponte, LI Cazón, KS Alves… - Tropical Plant …, 2022 - Springer
Plant disease severity, when expressed as percentage area diseased, is commonly
estimated visually without or with the aid of standard area diagram sets (SADs). It is …

Comparative analysis of phenotypic and molecular data on response to main pear diseases and pest attack in a germplasm collection

LI Simionca Mărcășan, I Oltean, S Popa… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The pear is an important fruit tree in temperate areas, but due to its sensitivity, fruit yield and
quality are often affected by disease and pest attacks. Pear genotypes from a germplasm …

Application of remote sensing to identify adult plant resistance loci to stripe rust in two bread wheat mapping populations

ZA Pretorius, CX Lan, R Prins, V Knight… - Precision …, 2017 - Springer
Phenotyping of wheat stripe rust in genetic studies has traditionally relied on quantifying
disease by means of the modified Cobb Scale. This approach requires scoring of disease …

Plant disease severity assessment—how rater bias, assessment method, and experimental design affect hypothesis testing and resource use efficiency

KS Chiang, CH Bock, IH Lee, M El Jarroudi… - …, 2016 - Am Phytopath Society
The effect of rater bias and assessment method on hypothesis testing was studied for
representative experimental designs for plant disease assessment using balanced and …

Effects of rater bias and assessment method on disease severity estimation with regard to hypothesis testing

KS Chiang, CH Bock, M El Jarroudi, P Delfosse… - Plant …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of bias (over‐and underestimates) in estimates of disease severity on hypothesis
testing using different assessment methods was explored. Nearest percentage estimates …

Estimate, a new iPad application for assessment of plant disease severity using photographic standard area diagrams

SJ Pethybridge, SC Nelson - Plant Disease, 2018 - Am Phytopath Society
Assessment of disease severity is a foundational component of plant pathology and
essential for robust disease management. Researchers often estimate disease severity …