scholarly journals The Utility of the Upcoming HyspIRI’s Simulated Spectral Settings in Detecting Maize Gray Leafy Spot in Relation to Sentinel-2 MSI, VENµS, and Landsat 8 OLI Sensors

Agronomy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 846
Author(s):  
Mbulisi Sibanda ◽  
Onisimo Mutanga ◽  
Timothy Dube ◽  
John Odindi ◽  
Paramu L. Mafongoya

Considering the high maize yield loses caused by incidences of disease, as well as incomprehensive monitoring initiatives in crop farming, there is a need for spatially explicit, cost-effective, and consistent approaches for monitoring, as well as for forecasting, food-crop diseases, such as maize Gray Leaf Spot. Such approaches are valuable in reducing the associated economic losses while fostering food security. In this study, we sought to investigate the utility of the forthcoming HyspIRI sensor in detecting disease progression of Maize Gray Leaf Spot infestation in relation to the Sentinel-2 MSI and Landsat 8 OLI spectral configurations simulated using proximally sensed data. Healthy, intermediate, and severe categories of maize crop infections by the Gray Leaf Spot disease were discriminated based on partial least squares–discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) algorithm. Comparatively, the results show that the HyspIRI’s simulated spectral settings slightly performed better than those of Sentinel-2 MSI, VENµS, and Landsat 8 OLI sensor. HyspIRI exhibited an overall accuracy of 0.98 compared to 0.95, 0.93, and 0.89, which were exhibited by Sentinel-2 MSI, VENµS, and Landsat 8 OLI sensor sensors, respectively. Furthermore, the results showed that the visible section, red-edge, and NIR covered by all the four sensors were the most influential spectral regions for discriminating different Maize Gray Leaf Spot infections. These findings underscore the potential value of the upcoming hyperspectral HyspIRI sensor in precision agriculture and forecasting of crop-disease epidemics, which are necessary to ensure food security.

Author(s):  
M. Sibanda ◽  
O. Mutanga ◽  
T. Dube ◽  
J. Odindi ◽  
P. L. Mafongoya

Abstract. Considering the high maize yield loses that are caused by diseases incidences as well as incomprehensive monitoring initiatives in the crop farming sector of agriculture, there is a need to come up with spatially explicit, cheap, fast and consistent approaches for monitoring as well as forecasting food crop diseases, such as maize gray leaf spot. This study, therefore, we sought to investigate the usability, strength and practicality of the forthcoming HyspIRI in detecting disease progression of Maize Gray leafy spot infections in relation to the Sentinel-2 MSI, Landsat 8 OLI spectral configurations. Maize Gray leafy spot disease progression that were discriminated based on partial least squares –discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) algorithm were (i) healthy, (ii) intermediate and (ii) severely infected maize crops. Comparatively, the results show that the HyspIRI’s simulated spectral settings slightly performed better than those of Sentinel-2 MSI, VENμS and Landsat 8 OLI sensor. HyspIRI exhibited an overall accuracy of 0.98 compared to 0.95, 0.93 and 0.89 exhibited by Sentinel-2 MSI, VENμS and Landsat 8 OLI sensor sensors, respectively. Further, the results showed that the visible section the red-edge and NIR covered by all the four sensors were the most influential spectral regions for discriminating different Maize Gray leafy spot infections. These findings underscore the added value and potential scientific breakthroughs likely to be brought about by the upcoming hyperspectral HyspIRI sensor in precision agriculture and forecasting of crop disease epidemics to ensure food security.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 504-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tirtha Raj Rijal ◽  
Jiban Shrestha ◽  
Bashistha Acharya ◽  
Narayan Bahadur Dhami ◽  
Ajay Karki ◽  
...  

Maize crop is affected by several diseases, but Gray leaf spot (GLS), is the major disease that threat maize production in every year in mid-hills and high-hills of Nepal. To identify the source of resistant on gray leaf spot disease maize genotypes were screened/evaluated under hot spots during 2013 and 2014 summer seasons across the hill environment of Nepal. In the screening nursery both exotic(CIMMYT China) and NMRP developed genotypes were included and screened at Pakhribas, Dhungkharka, Supping and Salyan during 2013 & 2014 summer seasons under replicated conditions. The genotypes identified resistant and high yielding at Dhungkharka in 2013 were YML58/(CML226/CATETO//CML226/CATETO)F2-B-1-2-B,YML32/(P147-F2-108-S7/P45-C8-76-S5)-F2-B-30-1-3, YML32/Cel FSRYS9956-B-3-2-4-B and YML58/(G34/36/G33TSR)-F2-B-4-1-B. In case of Salyan none of the genotypes showed resistant reaction against GLS but eight genotypes namely; YML23/P502-C2-58-1-1-2-5-B, YML23/P502-C2-185-3-4-1-3-B-1-B, YML23/P502-C3-F2-10-8-1-1-B, YML23/GLSI01P502-B-25-2-B, YML23/MBR-C5W-F108-2-3-1-B, YS12Q-189, YS12Q-33 and YS12Q-189 reacted MR reaction. At Pakhribas two genotypes reacted resistant (R) reaction namely; YML23/GLS101HGA-B-4-1-B and YS12Q-189 and other ten genotypes responded MR reaction. None of the tested entries at Suping responded resistant reaction but four genotypes ZM-401, 07SADVI, ZM-627 and BGBYPOP responded MR reaction against GLS. During 2014 summer season a total of 20 genotypes both exotic (CIMMYT India) and NMRP developed were screened against GLS across the hill regions of Pakhribas, Dhungkharka and Salyan. From the result of Pakhribas the genotype P501SRCO/P502SRCO was recorded for resistant (1.3) reaction and three genotypes 05SADVI, Entry # 36 and Entry # 27 were responded for MR reaction. In case of Dhungkharka nine genotypes namely; ZM-401, ZM-627, 05SADVI, 07SADVI, TLBRSO7F16, ENTRY#33, ENTRY#24, ENTRY#32 and ENTRY#21 were recorded for MR reaction. The tested genotypes at Salyan revealed that six genotypes namely; 05SADVI, 07SADVI, ACROSS-9942/ACROSS-9944, BGBYPOP, ENTRY # 24 and ENTRY# 32 were reacted resistant reaction and the genotype 07SADVI produced significantly highest grain yield (8638 kg/ha).Int J Appl Sci Biotechnol, Vol 3(3): 504-512


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocio Medina ◽  
Mario Emilio Ernesto Franco ◽  
Gustavo Lucentini ◽  
Mario Carlos Nazareno Saparrat ◽  
Pedro Alberto Balatti

Stemphylium lycopersici (Pleosporales) is a pathogenic fungus found on a broad range of plant hosts. It is one of the causal agents of gray leaf spot disease in tomato that causes severe yield reductions and economic losses worldwide.


Plant Disease ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 87 (12) ◽  
pp. 1536-1536 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Polizzi ◽  
I. Castello ◽  
A. M. Picco ◽  
D. Rodino

St. Augustinegrass (Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walt.) Kuntze) is used for lawns in southern Italy because it is much more resistant to biotic and abiotic adversities than other turfgrass species. Because few seeds are viable, this species is established by vegetative propagation. A new disease was noticed during the spring of 2002 and 2003 on cuttings of St. Augustinegrass growing in three greenhouses in eastern Sicily. The disease affected leaves and culms and caused a progressive drying of the plants. The infection was first seen on leaves as gray, necrotic spots that enlarged in high-humidity conditions to form oval, and later, spindle-shaped lesions. In association with the lesions, it was possible to observe fungal spore development and sunken areas with blue-gray centers and slightly irregular, brown margins with yellow halos. Spots were concentrated without specific arrangement along longitudinal veins and the midrib and at the base, tip, and margins of the leaf blade. Symptoms on the culms consisted of brown-to-black blotches that sometimes extended throughout the internodes. From these infected tissues, 20 explants taken from leaves and culms were cut, washed with sterile water, and placed on 1.5% water agar (WA). Later, conidia and conidiophores were obtained from colonies with a sterile glass needle and placed on 4% WA. From these plates, two monoconidial isolates were obtained and transferred to rice meal medium (1). The colonies were identified as Pyricularia grisea Cooke (Sacc.), anamorphic state of Magnaporthe grisea (Hebert) Yeagashi & Udagawa, the cause of rice blast disease and gray leaf spot disease of turfgrasses. The conidia were pyriform to obclavate, narrowed toward the tip, rounded at the base, 2-septate, 21 to 31 μm × 6 to 10 μm (average 25.7 ×8.2 μm). Pathogenicity tests were performed by inoculating leaves and culms of six St. Augustinegrass plants with a conidial suspension of the fungus (1.5 ×105 conidia per ml). The same number of noninoculated plants was used as controls. All plants were incubated in a moist chamber with high humidity at 25°C. After 6 days, all inoculated plants showed typical symptoms of the disease. Koch's postulates were fulfilled by isolating P. grisea from inoculated plants. Gray leaf spot caused by P. grisea has been a chronic problem on St. Augustinegrass since it was first reported in 1957 (2). To our knowledge, this is the first report of P. grisea on St. Augustinegrass in Italy. While it does not appear to be an important disease in the field at this time in Sicily, it could cause losses in greenhouses where vegetative material is propagated for field planting. A preliminary molecular analysis has shown a clear distinction between the tested strain and other strains isolated from rice seeds and plants in northern Italy. References: (1) E. Roumen et al. Eur. J. Plant Pathol. 103:363, 1997. (2) L. P. Tredway et al. Plant Dis. 87:435, 2003.


Plant Disease ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 94 (12) ◽  
pp. 1508-1508 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Y. Chen ◽  
C. Sui ◽  
B. C. Gan ◽  
J. H. Wei ◽  
Y. K. Zhou

Patchouli (Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth.) is mainly cultivated in Southeast Asia as a medicinal shrub and a source of patchouli oil used in perfumery. In 2008, a leaf spot disease was observed on patchouli plants grown on most farms (some farms had 99% incidence) in Wanning, the predominant cultivation location in the Hainan Province of China. The disease usually began at the tip of leaves, the main veins, or small veinlets. Severely irregular-shaped dark brown leaf spots expanded over 5 to 10 days, eventually causing infected leaves to abscise. The time from initial leaf lesions to abscission usually took 1 month. The disease was usually most severe in April and May, causing significant economic losses along with quality losses to patchouli oil extracted from leaves. To isolate the causal pathogen, diseased leaves were collected in August 2008 from a farm of the Hainan Branch Institute of Medicinal Plant Development in Wanning, surface sterilized in 75% ethanol for 1 min, transferred to potato dextrose agar (PDA), and incubated at 28°C for 14 days. Single-spore cultures of three isolates were obtained and identified as Corynespora cassiicola (Berk. & Curt.) Wei. on the basis of morphological and physiological features (1). Genomic DNA was extracted from all the cultures. The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the rDNA was amplified using primers ITS1 (5′-TCCGATGGTGAACCTGCGG-3′) and ITS4 (5′-TCCTCCGCTTATTGATATGC-3′). Amplicons were 546 bp (GenBank Accession No. HM145960) and had 99% nucleotide identity with the corresponding sequence (GenBank Accession No. GU138988) of C. cassiicola isolated from cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz). To satisfy Koch's postulates, 50-day-old potted plants in a tent were sprayed until runoff with a spore suspension (1 × 106 spores/ml) prepared from 10-day-old cultures. Using this spray method, one isolate was inoculated separately onto nine leaves of three potted plants. The potted plants were covered with plastic bags to maintain high humidity for 48 h and then placed outside under natural environmental conditions (temperature 20 to 28°C). Another nine leaves of three potted plants, sprayed only with sterile water, served as noninoculated control plants. Leaf spot symptoms similar to those on diseased field plants appeared after 7 days on all inoculated plants. C. cassiicola was reisolated from all inoculated test plants. No symptoms were observed on the control plants. To our knowledge, this is the first report of C. cassiicola causing a leaf spot disease on patchouli in China. Other previous reports of this disease were from Cuba (2). This pathogen has also been reported previously to be economically important on a number of other hosts. On patchouli plants, more attention should be given to prevention and control measures to help manage this disease. References: (1) M. B. Ellis. Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes. Commonwealth Mycological Institute: Kew, Surrey, England, 1971. (2) I. Sandoval et al. Cienc. Tec. Agric., Prot. Plant. 10:21, 1987.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. e0232962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Ngadze ◽  
Kudzai Shaun Mpakairi ◽  
Blessing Kavhu ◽  
Henry Ndaimani ◽  
Monalisa Shingirayi Maremba

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maliheh Arekhi ◽  
Cigdem Goksel ◽  
Fusun Balik Sanli ◽  
Gizem Senel

This study aims to test the spectral and spatial consistency of Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 OLI data for the potential of monitoring longos forests for four seasons in Igneada, Turkey. Vegetation indices, including Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) and Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI), were generated for the study area in addition to the five corresponding bands of Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 OLI Images. Although the spectral consistency of the data was interpreted by cross-calibration analysis using the Pearson correlation coefficient, spatial consistency was evaluated by descriptive statistical analysis of investigated variables. In general, the highest correlation values were achieved for the images that were acquired in the spring season for almost all investigated variables. In the spring season, among the investigated variables, the Red band (B4), NDVI and EVI have the largest correlation coefficients of 0.94, 0.92 and 0.91, respectively. Regarding the spatial consistency, the mean and standard deviation values of all variables were consistent for all seasons except for the mean value of the NDVI for the fall season. As a result, if there is no atmospheric effect or data retrieval/acquisition error, either Landsat-8 or Sentinel-2 can be used as a combination or to provide the continuity data in longos monitoring applications. This study contributes to longos forest monitoring science in terms of remote sensing data analysis.


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