Bacterial blight poses a threat to rice production and food security,which can be controlled through large-scale breeding efforts toward resistant cultivars.Unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)remote sensing provides an alter...Bacterial blight poses a threat to rice production and food security,which can be controlled through large-scale breeding efforts toward resistant cultivars.Unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)remote sensing provides an alternative means for the infield phenotype evaluation of crop disease resistance to relatively time-consuming and laborious traditional methods.However,the quality of data acquired by UAV can be affected by several factors such as weather,crop growth period,and geographical location,which can limit their utility for the detection of crop disease and resistant phenotypes.Therefore,a more effective use of UAV data for crop disease phenotype analysis is required.In this paper,we used time series UAV remote sensing data together with accumulated temperature data to train the rice bacterial blight severity evaluation model.The best results obtained with the predictive model showed an R_(p)^(2) of 0.86 with an RMSE_(p) of 0.65.Moreover,model updating strategy was used to explore the scalability of the established model in different geographical locations.Twenty percent of transferred data for model training was useful for the evaluation of disease severity over different sites.In addition,the method for phenotypic analysis of rice disease we built here was combined with quantitative trait loci(QTL)analysis to identify resistance QTL in genetic populations at different growth stages.Three new QTLs were identified,and QTLs identified at different growth stages were inconsistent.QTL analysis combined with UAV high-throughput phenotyping provides new ideas for accelerating disease resistance breeding.展开更多
基金funded by the Planned Science and Technology Project of Guangdong Province,China(grant no.2021A0505030075)Key R&D Projects in Huzhou City(grant no.2021ZD2037)State Key Laboratory for managing biotic and chemical treats to the quality and safety of agro-products(grant no.2022KF03).
文摘Bacterial blight poses a threat to rice production and food security,which can be controlled through large-scale breeding efforts toward resistant cultivars.Unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)remote sensing provides an alternative means for the infield phenotype evaluation of crop disease resistance to relatively time-consuming and laborious traditional methods.However,the quality of data acquired by UAV can be affected by several factors such as weather,crop growth period,and geographical location,which can limit their utility for the detection of crop disease and resistant phenotypes.Therefore,a more effective use of UAV data for crop disease phenotype analysis is required.In this paper,we used time series UAV remote sensing data together with accumulated temperature data to train the rice bacterial blight severity evaluation model.The best results obtained with the predictive model showed an R_(p)^(2) of 0.86 with an RMSE_(p) of 0.65.Moreover,model updating strategy was used to explore the scalability of the established model in different geographical locations.Twenty percent of transferred data for model training was useful for the evaluation of disease severity over different sites.In addition,the method for phenotypic analysis of rice disease we built here was combined with quantitative trait loci(QTL)analysis to identify resistance QTL in genetic populations at different growth stages.Three new QTLs were identified,and QTLs identified at different growth stages were inconsistent.QTL analysis combined with UAV high-throughput phenotyping provides new ideas for accelerating disease resistance breeding.