scholarly journals Evaluation of Individual Plant Growth Estimation in an Intercropping Field with UAV Imagery

Agriculture ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Norazlida Jamil ◽  
Gert Kootstra ◽  
Lammert Kooistra
Keyword(s):  
Plant Growth ◽  
Plant Height ◽  
Digital Terrain Model ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
Field Investigation ◽  
Surface Model ◽  
Individual Plant ◽  
Automatic Assessment ◽  
The Individual

Agriculture practices in monocropping need to become more sustainable and one of the ways to achieve this is to reintroduce intercropping. However, quantitative data to evaluate plant growth in intercropping systems are still lacking. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have the potential to become a state-of-the-art technique for the automatic estimation of plant growth. Individual plant height is an important trait attribute for field investigation as it can be used to derive information on crop growth throughout the growing season. This study aimed to investigate the applicability of UAV-based RGB imagery combined with the structure from motion (SfM) method for estimating the individual plants height of cabbage, pumpkin, barley, and wheat in an intercropping field during a complete growing season under varying conditions. Additionally, the effect of different percentiles and buffer sizes on the relationship between UAV-estimated plant height and ground truth plant height was examined. A crop height model (CHM) was calculated as the difference between the digital surface model (DSM) and the digital terrain model (DTM). The results showed that the overall correlation coefficient (R2) values of UAV-estimated and ground truth individual plant heights for cabbage, pumpkin, barley, and wheat were 0.86, 0.94, 0.36, and 0.49, respectively, with overall root mean square error (RMSE) values of 6.75 cm, 6.99 cm, 14.16 cm, and 22.04 cm, respectively. More detailed analysis was performed up to the individual plant level. This study suggests that UAV imagery can provide a reliable and automatic assessment of individual plant heights for cabbage and pumpkin plants in intercropping but cannot be considered yet as an alternative approach for barley and wheat.

scholarly journals The Effect of Nitrogen Fertilization on the Herb Yield of Dragonhead

1989 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 387-394
Author(s):  
B. Galambosi ◽  
Y. Holm
Keyword(s):  
Plant Height ◽  
Nitrogen Fertilizer ◽  
Nitrogen Fertilization ◽  
Plant Density ◽  
Calcium Nitrate ◽  
Nitrate Content ◽  
Individual Plant ◽  
Flowering Stage ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Herb Yield

The influence of a top-dressing of nitrogen fertilizer (calcium nitrate, CaNO3) on the individual plant height and weight, herb yield and nitrate content of dragonhead (Dracocephalum moldavica L.) was studied in 1987 in Puumala, Finland. The nitrogen doses applied ranged from 0 to 270 kg/ha. Nitrogen fertilization increased both the individual plant height and weight, the fresh and dry herb yield and the nitrate content of the plants. However, no optimum nitrogen dose could be found since the maximum was not reached in most of the cases. An exception was the herb yield (d.w.) of transplanted plants, harvested at the flowering stage, where a nitrogen dose of 70—80 kg/ha gave the highest yield. If the plants were allowed to grow a few weeks more the yield was four fold compared to the earlier harvesting. Sown plants gave a yield two times higher than the transplanted plants, but this was partly due to the greater plant density on the sown plots.

scholarly journals Intensity of grass stand formation on simulation models of pastures for different seasons of use

2020 ◽  
Vol 202 (11) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
S. Turko ◽  
K. Trubakova
Keyword(s):  
Plant Growth ◽  
Plant Height ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
Specific Rate ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Average Growth ◽  
Vegetative Period ◽  
Grass Stand ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. The purpose of the research is to substantiate the relationship between the parameter of the greatest growth of plants with a specific rate of grazing of animals on pasture. It is necessary to solve problems with the intensity of animal grazing, and also to establish, according to the data, a statistical relationship between the parameters of the logistic equation that describes the average statistical growth of plants on natural pastures. Research methods. The experiments were carried out at the research sites of the lysimetric complex of the FSC of Agroecology RAS with various soil substrates (Kumskiy sand, Bazhiganskiy sand, chernozem-like sandy loam substrate). Sowing mixtures of multicomponent herbs of the Stavropol selection was performed for further analysis of plant growth and development, taking into account the different season of use. Results. The article presents the equation of the course of growth of the grass stand for the growing season, which proves that even after the removal of part of the phytomass, the plant growth law is preserved according to the principle of the sigmoid curve. The maximum plant height after simulating phytomass etching was recorded on a lysimeter No. 6 and averaged: with phytomass removal of ⅓ – 121 cm, ½ – 97 cm, ⅔ – 61 cm. The smallest average plant height was noted on lysimeter No. 13 – 64 cm. The highest height on this lysimeter was 110 cm with ⅓ removal. The average growth at the end of the growing season of plants for all simulation models was distributed as follows: with the withdrawal of 33 % – 73 %; 50 % – 53 %; 67 % – 31 %. The experiments showed that it is not recommended to remove more than ⅓ of the plant phytomass. The main role is played by the rate of phytomass removal (grazing rate) for the stable restoration of the grass stand of degraded pastures, and it is also necessary to take into account the vegetative period of the plant. Scientific novelty. The relationship between plant growth parameters has been established. It allows you to predict the characteristics of further growth, improve the natural degraded grass stands, establish the sequence of grazing in different areas in accordance with the species composition of plants.

Variation of morphological indicators of three-line hybrids sunflower and their parental forms

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-54
Keyword(s):  
Plant Growth ◽  
Plant Height ◽  
Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Pollen Fertility ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
Hydrothermal Coefficient ◽  
Average Plant ◽  
Fertility Restorers

The article presents the results of three-year (2016–2018) studies of five three-line hybrids of the IMC selection - Agent, Agronomichny, Marshal, Kamenyar, Zaporozhskij 28 and their parent components - simple unreduced hybrids - ZL22A/102B, ZL42A/46B, ZL42A/58B and pollen fertility restorers – ZL512V, ZL678V and ZL7034V. It was found that individual indicators do not change synchronously. The Agent, Marshal and Kamenyar hybrids had the highest plant height in 2016, one each in 2017 – Agronomichny and in 2018 – Zaporozhskij 28. At the same time, three hybrids (Agent, Agronomical, Marshal) had the largest basket diameter in 2018 and two (Zaporozhskij 28, Kamenyar) in 2017. The shortest growing season hybrids Marshal, Zaporozhskij 28 and Kamenyar had in 2016 (90, 105 and 105 days), and two – Agent and Agronomichny in 2018 – 100 and 103 days, respectively. Among the simple unrecovered hybrids, two – ZL42A/46B and ZL42A/58B had high indicators of plant height, basket diameter and duration of the growing season in 2016. In the ZL22A/102B hybrid, the diameter of the basket was also the largest in 2016 (18.5 cm), the average plant height in 2016 – 124.5 cm was slightly lower than in 2018 (125.4 cm), also in these years in it almost coincided with the duration of the growing season – 97 days in 2016 and 96 in 2018 Fertility restorers had the highest indicators of plant height and basket diameter in 2017, also this year they had the shortest growing season, in 2016, on the contrary, they had the lowest height and the diameter of the basket, and the long growing season. The size of the baskets in the Marshal and Kamenyar hybrids correlates with the moisture supply of plants and the hydrothermal coefficient – the correlation coefficients are 0.997, 0.902 and 0.990, 0.973, respectively. The phases of organogenesis of plants of hybrids Kamenyar and Zaporozhskij 28 are greatly influenced by temperature, the correlation coefficient of this indicator with plant height and with the duration of the growing season is 0.996 for Kamenyar and 0.946 for Zaporozhskij 28, and with a hydrothermal coefficient – 0.939 and 0.753. In the Agent hybrid, the temperatures in June have the greatest influence on plant growth - the correlation coefficient is 0.997 and precipitation in May is 0.968, and the temperatures in May - 0.999 and June - 0.998 on the size of the basket. For the height of plants and the duration of the growing season at Agronomichny, moisture availability at the beginning of the growing season is very important, the correlation coefficients are 0.918 and 0.994, and in August during the filling of seeds 0.996 and 0.927, as well as July precipitation is 0.995. Of the simple unrecovered hybrids, the most demanding for heat is ZL22A/102B - the correlation coefficients are 0.941 with plant height and vegetation duration, 0.843 with the basket size. For ZL42A/58B, the most important are the May precipitation, their correlation with the vegetation duration of 1,000 and the basket diameter of 0.987, and the July temperatures - 0.999 and 0.993, respectively. Among the pollen fertility restorers, the line ZL512V turned out to be the most demanding to weather conditions. For plant growth, the temperatures of April (0.906), May (0.995) and June (1.000) are very important, for the duration of the growing season respectively – 0.958, 0.971 and 0.991, and for the size of the basket, precipitation in May (0.956) and July temperatures (0.943). The correlation coefficient with the sum of active temperatures is – 0.829 for plant height – 0.851 for basket diameter – 0.902 for the growing season.

scholarly journals The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on the early-stage restoration of seasonally dry tropical forest in Chamela, Mexico

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Huante ◽  
Eliane Ceccon ◽  
Alma Orozco-Segovia ◽  
María Esther Sánchez-Coronado ◽  
Irma Acosta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Height ◽  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Mycorrhizal Fungi ◽  
Arbuscular Mycorrhizae ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
Dry Forest ◽  
Individual Plant ◽  
Functional Characteristics ◽  
Leaf Production

It was evaluated the effect of two different sources of local inocula from two contrasting sites (mature forest, pasture) of arbuscular mycorrhizae fungi (AMF) and a non-mycorrhizal control on the plant growth of six woody species differing in functional characteristics (slow-, intermediate- and fast-growth), when introduced in a seasonally tropical dry forest (STDF) converted into abandoned pasture. Six plots (12 X 12m) were set as AMF inoculum source. Six replicates of six different species arranged in a Latin Square design were set in each plot. Plant height, cover area and the number of leaves produced by individual plant was measured monthly during the first growing season in each treatment. Species differed in their ability to benefit from AMF and the largest responsiveness in plant height and leaf production was exhibited by the slow-growing species Swietenia humilis, Hintonia latiflora and Cordia alliodora. At the end of the growing season (November), the plant height of the fast growing species Tabebuia donnel-smithii, Ceiba pentandra and Guazuma ulmifolia were not influenced by AMF. However, inocula of AMF increased leaf production of all plant species regardless the functional characteristics of the species, suggesting a better exploitation of above-ground space and generating a light limited environment under the canopy, which contributed to pasture suppression. Inoculation of seedlings planted in abandoned pasture areas is recommended for ecological restoration due to the high responsiveness of seedling growth in most of species. Use of forest inoculum with its higher diversity of AMF could accelerate the ecological restoration of the above and below-ground comunities.

Trinexapac-ethyl as an Alternative to Reduce Lodging and Preserve Grain Yield and Quality of Rye

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Magaiver Gindri Pinheiro ◽  
Clovis Arruda Souza ◽  
Elijanara Raissa Silva ◽  
João Francisco Costa Carneiro Junior ◽  
Alex Fernando Basilio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Growth ◽  
Plant Height ◽  
Growth Stage ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Dose Range ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
Reproductive Organs ◽  
Main Stem ◽  
Best Response

Trinexapac-ethyl (henceforth referred to as trinexapac) is a growth regulator that can mitigate some undesirable vegetative growth in Poaceae plants, reducing lodging and optimizing the distribution of photoassimilates to reproductive organs. The objective of this research was to evaluate the morphophysiological and productive responses of rye cultivars and trinexapac doses applied at different phenological stages of plants. Two field experiments were performed in two different seasons. In the 2015 growing season, 8 doses of trinexapac were evaluated: 0, 75, 85, 100, 115, 130, 150, 200 g ha-1 of active ingredient (a.i.), applied at the plant growth stage with the 4th node visible on the main stem (GS34). In the 2018 growing season, two cultivars (IPR 89 and BRS Serrano) and five doses of trinexapac were evaluated: 0, 50, 100, 150 and 200 g a.i. ha-1, applied at the plant growth stage with the 6th node visible on the main stem (GS36). The morphophysiological, productive and qualitative characteristics of grains were evaluated. In the 2015 season, trinexapac applied to shoot plants at GS34 only have low response in decreased plant lodging from around 20% to 10%. However, in the 2018 season, the application of trinexapac on plants at GS36, resulted in lower plant height, associated with reduced lodging and better quality of rye grains. Cultivar IPR 89 showed higher values for yield components and grain quality in comparison to cultivar BRS Serrano. Reduced lodging is dependent on speed of resumption of plant height growth, and the magnitude of response to trinexapac is also stage-cultivar-dose-dependent; in rye, the best response to trinexapac was found at GS 36 in comparison to GS 34, and for IPR 89 in comparison to BRS Serrano cultivar, respectively, with a dose range from 100 to 150 g ai ha-1. In conclusion, trinexapac (around 150 g a.i. ha-1), when applied to plants at GS36, reduces plant height, reduces the lodging index and enables the harvest of high-quality grains.

scholarly journals Unoccupied aerial system enabled functional modeling of maize (Zea mays L.) height reveals dynamic expression of loci associated to temporal growth

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven L. Anderson ◽  
Seth C. Murray ◽  
Yuanyuan Chen ◽  
Lonesome Malambo ◽  
Anjin Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Zea Mays ◽  
Plant Growth ◽  
Flowering Time ◽  
Plant Height ◽  
Inflection Point ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
Growth Trajectories ◽  
Dynamic Expression ◽  
Aerial Systems

AbstractUnoccupied aerial systems (UAS) were used to phenotype growth trajectories of inbred maize populations under field conditions. Three recombinant inbred line populations were surveyed on a weekly basis collecting RGB images across two irrigation regimens (irrigated and non-irrigated/rain fed). Plant height, estimated by the 95th percentile (P95) height from UAS generated 3D point clouds, exceeded 70% correlation to manual ground truth measurements and 51% of experimental variance was explained by genetics. The Weibull sigmoidal function accurately modeled plant growth (R2: >99%; RMSE: < 4 cm) from P95 genetic means. The mean asymptote was strongly correlated (r2=0.66-0.77) with terminal plant height. Maximum absolute growth rates (mm d-1) were weakly correlated to height and flowering time. The average inflection point ranged from 57 to 60 days after sowing (DAS) and was correlated with flowering time (r2=0.45-0.68). Functional growth parameters (asymptote, inflection point, growth rate) alone identified 34 genetic loci, each explaining 3 to 15% of total genetic variation. Plant height was estimated at one-day intervals to 85 DAS, identifying 58 unique temporal quantitative trait loci (QTL) locations. Genomic hotspots on chromosome 1 and 3 indicated chromosomal regions associated with functional growth trajectories influencing flowering time, growth rate, and terminal growth. Temporal QTL demonstrated unique dynamic expression patterns not observable previously, no QTL were significantly expressed throughout the entire growing season. UAS technologies improved phenotypic selection accuracy and permitted monitoring traits on a temporal scale previously infeasible using manual measurements, furthering understanding of crop development and biological trajectories.Author summaryUnoccupied aerial systems (UAS) now can provide high throughput phenotyping to functionally model plant growth and explore genetic loci underlying temporal expression of dynamic phenotypes, specifically plant height. Efficient integration of temporal phenotyping via UAS, will improve the scientific understanding of dynamic, quantitative traits and developmental trajectories of important agronomic crops, leading to new understanding of plant biology. Here we present, for the first time, the dynamic nature of quantitative trait loci (QTL) over time under field conditions. To our knowledge, this is first empirical study to expand beyond selective developmental time points, evaluating functional and temporal QTL expression in maize (Zea mays L.) throughout a growing season within a field-based environment.

scholarly journals Pengaruh kitosan terhadap peningkatan level ekspresi WRKY17 dan WRKY53 tanaman Capsicum annuum cv. Laba pada kondisi kekeringan

2020 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Abdul AZIZ ◽  
Rizkita Rahmi ESYANTI ◽  
Fenny Martha DWIVANNY
Keyword(s):  
Plant Growth ◽  
Growth Performance ◽  
Plant Height ◽  
Defense Responses ◽  
Expression Level ◽  
Drought Treatment ◽  
Regulated Expression ◽  
Number Of Leaves ◽  
Generative Phase ◽  
The Individual

Chitosan is known as the natural plant growth biostimulant and defense elicitor involving WRKY transcription factors in response to environmental stresses. However, either plant’s growth or defense responses against stress are different among the cultivars. In the previous study, chitosan and drought treatment combination on red chili plant cv. Lado resulted in the impeded growth performance followed by the down-regulated expression level of WRKY17. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the response of red chili plant from the different cultivar towards the combination of chitosan and drought treatments. At the onset of the generative phase, plants were subjected to the drought treatment with and without 1 mg mL-1 of chitosan application. Observation of plant growth performance was carried out by measuring plant height, the number of leaves, the conversion percentage of flowers developed to fruits, and the number of harvested fruits, while the molecular parameter was indicated by the analyses of WRKY17 and WRKY53 expression levels. In line with the previous study using cv. Lado, the combination of 1 mg mL-1 of chitosan and drought treatment significantly reduced the plant productivity observed in the number of fruits, followed by the plant height and the number of leaves. However, the expression level of WRKY17 and WRKY53 experienced 10 and 22-fold higher than controls, respectively. This is different from the previous study which showed the reduction of WRKY17 expression level. According to the study, it can be implied that the combination of chitosan and drought treatments on red chili plant cv. Laba could reduce plant growth performance, but increased genetics indicator towards plant’s defense system against stress indicated by the escalation of WRKY17 and WRKY53 expression level. Furthermore, the individual chitosan application are potential to increase the productivity of red chili plant cv. Laba. 

Parameterising the impact of shelter on crop microclimates and evaporation fluxes

2002 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 859 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. A. Cleugh
Keyword(s):  
Plant Growth ◽  
Evaporation Rate ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
Surface Model ◽  
Plant Canopy ◽  
Potential Evaporation ◽  
Evaporative Demand ◽  
Equilibrium Evaporation ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
The Impact

This paper presents the modelling framework and parameterisations adopted to enable the effects of wind shelter on crop microclimates and growth to be simulated. Two modelling components were required: the first, SCAM (Soil Canopy Atmosphere Model), is a biophysical land surface model used to simulate the effects of shelter on the plant canopy and soil energy and water exchanges. The second is the Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM) configured for crop modelling (Carberry et al. 2002). This paper describes the link between the two and the parameterisations developed to simulate the effects of shelter and provide potential evaporation estimates for input to APSIM. A series of sensitivity analyses using SCAM demonstrate, as expected, that over the course of the growing season and during meteorological conditions typical of agricultural regions in south-eastern Australia, plant evaporation is relatively insensitive to wind speed. This is consistent with theory and illustrates that reducing wind speeds will only reduce evaporation fluxes when the (unsheltered) canopy evaporation rate exceeds the equilibrium evaporation rate. In other words, reductions in water loss as a result of shelter will arise from one or a combination of the following: (i) reduced soil evaporation following rainfall; (ii) reduced evaporation of rainfall intercepted by the plant canopy; and (iii) reduced plant transpiration during wet periods and/or periods of very high demand when transpiration exceeds the equilibrium evaporation rate. Increased storage of soil moisture as a result of shelter early in the season may sustain crop transpiration later in the growing season. While this may not modify seasonal water use, increased soil water availability for the growing crop may confer an advantage in terms of final yield. The paper then describes the development and validation of a bulk scalar transfer coefficient, or resistance, based on wind tunnel experiments investigating scalar (heat and water vapour) transport in windbreak flows. This coefficient is used in SCAM to parameterise the effect of shelter on the exchanges of heat and water between the atmosphere and the soil and/or plant canopy. A simple parameterisation for this coefficient is developed and implemented. The potential effects of shelter on evaporative demand and hence plant growth are then quantified by using the predictions of plant potential evaporation, calculated from a modified version of SCAM as input to APSIM. The simulations show that events where reduced evaporative demand benefits plant growth can occur intermittently in the latter part of the growing season (i.e. post-anthesis for cereals) for some climatic regimes, as illustrated by the simulations for the Roseworthy, Esperance and Atherton sites used in the National Windbreaks Program.

EFFECT OF TOXIC METAL ON THE STRUCTURAL DRY WEIGHT OF A PLANT: A MODEL

2013 ◽  
Vol 06 (05) ◽  
pp. 1350028 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. P. MISRA ◽  
PREETY KALRA
Keyword(s):  
Plant Growth ◽  
Toxic Effect ◽  
Nutrient Use Efficiency ◽  
Toxic Metal ◽  
Dry Weight ◽  
Individual Plant ◽  
Root Structure ◽  
Nutrient Use ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
The Individual

A two compartment mathematical model for the individual plant growth under the stress of toxic metal is studied. In the model it is assumed that the uptake of toxic metal by the plant is through root compartment. The toxic metal present in the soil interfere with the uptake and distribution of essential nutrients in plant causing decrease in the nutrient uptake eventually damaging the root structure. In the model it is further assumed that the resistance to nutrient transport from root to shoot compartment increases and nutrient use efficiency decreases due to the presence of toxic metal. In order to visualize the effect of toxic metal on plant growth, we have studied two models, that is, model for plant growth with no toxic effect and model for plant growth with toxic effect. From the analysis of the models the criteria for plant growth with and without toxic effects are derived. The numerical simulation is done using Matlab to support the analytical results.

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