Image-Based Automatic Diagnostic System for Tomato Plants Using Deep Learning

Tomato production is affected by various threats,including pests,pathogens,and nutritional deciencies during its growth process.If control is not timely,these threats affect the plant-growth,fruit-yield,or even loss of the entire crop,which is a key danger to farmers’livelihood and food security.Traditional plant disease diagnosis methods heavily rely on plant pathologists that incur high processing time and huge cost.Rapid and cost-effective methods are essential for timely detection and early intervention of basic food threats to ensure food security and reduce substantial economic loss.Recent developments in Articial Intelligence(AI)and computer vision allow researchers to develop image-based automatic diagnostic tools to quickly and accurately detect diseases.In this work,we proposed an AI-based approach to detect diseases in tomato plants.Our goal is to develop an end-to-end system to diagnose essential crop problems in real-time,ensuring high accuracy.This paper employs various deep learning models to recognize and predict different diseases caused by pathogens,pests,and nutritional deciencies.Various Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs)are trained on a large dataset of leaves and fruits images of tomato plants.We compared the performance of ShallowNet(a shallow network trained from scratch)and the state-of-theart deep learning network(models are ne-tuned via transfer learning).In our experiments,DenseNet consistently achieved high performance with an accuracy score of 95.31%on the test dataset.The results verify that deep learning models with the least number of parameters,reasonable complexity,and appropriate depth achieve the best performance.All experiments are implemented in Python,utilizing the Keras deep learning library backend with TensorFlow.

Influence of Symbiotic Interaction between Fungus, Virus, and Tomato Plant in Combating Drought Stress

The influence of the three-way interaction between the fungus (Curvularia protuberata), virus (CThTV), and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) in combating drought stress was evaluated in this study. The plants in this greenhouse experiment were grown under conditions of 400 ± 150 μmol·m-2·s-1 photon flux density, 45% to 50% relative humidity (RH), and 30°C ± 2°C. Tomato seeds were germinated and inoculated with the combination of the fungus and virus at the seedling stage. The plants were allowed to grow for two weeks and randomly selected individuals were utilized. The selected plants were grown in one gallon pots containing organic potting soil. The treatments included non-symbiotic (NS), virus-free (VF), and symbiotic (An) plants. Each treatment received twelve samples and each sample was allowed to grow for an additional two weeks under drought stress. At that time, plants were exhibiting drought stress symptoms including visible wilting. Six samples from each treatment were utilized in determining selected physiological responses of tomato at pre-anthesis stage. The remaining six samples from each treatment were re-watered once and allowed to grow until they reached the anthesis stage. When they showed visible signs of wilting, the same physiological responses measured during pre-anthesis were conducted. The samples of each treatment were utilized at the end of each stage in determining photosynthetic rate, stomata conductance, photosynthetic pigments, water potential, and soluble sugar content. Plant growth, chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, photosynthetic rate, stomata conductance, water potential, and soluble sugar content were similarly affected by the various treatments. However, carotenoids were significantly higher at pre-anthesis in the symbiotic plants in comparison to other treatments. Additionally, photosynthesis appeared to be significantly higher at anthesis compared to pre-anthesis for all treatments.

Effects of Different Planting Years on Physicochemical Properties and Enzyme Activities in Soil of Rice-Cherry Tomato Rotation

Crop rotation periodicity has always been one of the research focuses currently. In this study, the physicochemical properties, nutrient contents and enzyme activities were investigated in soils from rice-cherry tomato rotation for one year (1a), three years (3a), five years (5a), seven years (7a) and ten years (10a), respectively. The major objective was to analyze the optimal rotation years of rice-cherry tomato from soil perspective, so as to provide theoretical basis for effectively avoiding continuous cropping obstacles of cherry tomato via studying the response characteristics of soil physicochemical properties, nutrient contents and enzyme activities to planting years of rice-cherry tomato rotation system. The results were as follows: 1) Soil pH value was increased year by year during 1a to 5a, reached the highest value 5.32 at 5a. However, soil acidity was sharply enhanced during 7a to 10a (P P •kg-1 at 5a. 3) The content of soil available phosphorus was increased year by year with increasing of crop rotation years, and increased by 110% to 173% during 3a to 10a (P P P < 0.05). In conclusion, long-term single rotation pattern of rice-cherry tomato would aggravate soil acidification, prompt soil nutrient imbalance and reduce soil enzyme activity. 5a to 7a would be the appropriate rotation period for rice-cherry tomato, or else it would reduce soil quality, resulting in a new continuous cropping obstacle of cherry tomato.

Integrative analysis of the transcriptome and metabolome reveals the response mechanism to tomato spotted wilt virus

Tomato spotted wilt virus(TSWV)is an important virus that has rapidly spread throughout the world.TSWV seriously hinders the production of tomato(Solanum lycopersicum)and other plants.In order to discover more new genes and metabolites related to TSWV resistance in tomato plants,the genes and metabolites related to the resistance of tomato plants inoculated with TSWV were identified and studied herein.The tomato TSWV-resistance line YNAU335(335)and TSWV-susceptible lines NO5 and 96172I(961)were used as the transcriptome and metabolome research materials.Transcriptomic and metabolomic techniques were used to analyze the gene and metabolite response mechanisms to TSWV inoculation.A total of 3566,2951,and 2674 differentially expressed genes(DEGs)were identified in lines 335,NO5,and961,respectively.Meanwhile,208,228,and 273 differentially accumulated metabolites(DAMs)were identified in lines 335,NO5,and 961,respectively.In line 335,the number of DEGs was the highest,but the number of DAMs was lowest.Furthermore,903 DEGs and 94 DAMs were common to the response to TSWV in the three inbred lines.The 903 DEGs and 94 DAMs were mainly enriched in the plant hormone signal transduction and flavonoid synthesis pathways.In addition,many nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat genes and transcription factors were found that might be involved in the TSWV response.These results provide new insights into TSWV resistance mechanisms.

Inheritance of Several Plant Type Characters in Truss Tomato

Plant type characters of truss tomato were studied for exploring the inheritance of leaf angle, and providing a theoretical basis for breeding truss tomato cultivars in compact plant type. Participant truss tomato inbred lines were involved in the cross and backcross for multi-generations, and the mixed major genes plus polygene inheritance model was employed to analyze the inheritance model of leaf angle, plant width, and leaf drooping value. The inheritance of leaf angle and plant width was controlled by one pair of additive major genes plus additive-dominant polygene （D-2）. The additive effect of the major genes controlling leaf angle was 6.51, the additive effect of the polygene was 15.01, the potential ratio was 0.914, and the dominant degree was 0; the heritability of the major genes was 45.61% in B1 generation, 37.29% in B2 generation, and 47.71% in F2 generation. The additive effect of the major genes controlling plant width was 3.08, while the additive effect and dominant effect of the polygene were 3.58 and -1.59, respectively, with the potential ratio of -0.44 and 0 dominant degree; the heritability of the major genes was 23.30% in B1 generation, 20.73% in B2 generation, and 36.11% in F2 generation; leaf-drooping-value trait was controlled by one pair of negative complete dominant major genes plus additive-dominant polygene （D-4）. The additive effect of the major genes was 8.18, the dominant effect was -8.18, the additive effect in the polygene was 3.12, the dominant effect was 19.07, the potential ratio was 6.09, and the dominant degree was -1; the heritability of the polygene was 69.15% in B1 generation, 68.5% in B2 generation, and 49.57% in F2 generation. The improvement on leaf angle and plant width of 173×101 should be focused on the major genes and the selection should be made in early generations, while the improvement on leaf-drooping-value of 173×01 should be made in late generations.

On-site variety discrimination of tomato plant using visible-near infrared reflectance spectroscopy

The use of visible-near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy was explored as a tool to discriminate two new tomato plant varieties in China (Zheza205 and Zheza207). In this study, 82 top-canopy leaves of Zheza205 and 86 top-canopy leaves of Zheza207 were measured in visible-NIR reflectance mode. Discriminant models were developed using principal component analysis (PCA), discriminant analysis (DA), and discriminant partial least squares (DPLS) regression methods. After outliers detection, the samples were randomly split into two sets, one used as a calibration set (n=82) and the remaining samples as a validation set (n=82). When predicting the variety of the samples in validation set, the classification correctness of the DPLS model after optimizing spectral pretreatment was up to 93%. The DPLS model with raw spectra after multiplicative scatter cor- rection and Savitzky-Golay filter smoothing pretreatments had the best satisfactory calibration and prediction abilities (correlation coefficient of calibration (Rc)=0.920, root mean square errors of calibration=0.196, and root mean square errors of predic- tion=0.216). The results show that visible-NIR spectroscopy might be a suitable alternative tool to discriminate tomato plant varieties on-site.

AtbHLH29 of Arabidopsis thaliana is a functional ortholog of tomato FER involved in controlling iron acquisition in strategy I plants

AtbHLH29 of Arabidopsis, encoding a bHLH protein, reveals a high similarity to the tomato FER which is proposed as a transcriptional regulator involved in controlling the iron deficiency responses and the iron uptake in tomato. For identification of its biological functions, AtbHLH29 was introduced into the genome of the tomato FER mutant T3238fer mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciencs. Transgenic plants were regenerated and the stable integration of AtbHLH29 into their genomes was confirmed by Southern hybridization. Molecular analysis demonstrated that expression of the exogenous AtbHLH29 of Arabidopsis in roots of the FER mutant T3238fer enabled to complement the defect functions of FER. The transgenic plants regained the ability to activate the whole iron deficiency responses and showed normal growth as the wild type under iron-limiting stress. Our transformation data demonstrate that AtbHLH29 is a functional ortholog of the tomato FER and can completely replace FER in controlling the effective iron acquisition in tomato. Except of iron, FER protein was directly or indirectly involved in manganese homeostasis due to that loss functions of FER in T3238fer resulted in strong reduction of Mn content in leaves and the defect function on Mn accumulation in leaves was complemented by expression of AtbHLH29 in the transgenic plants. Identification of the similar biological functions of FER and AtbHLH29, which isolated from two systematically wide-diverged “strategy I” plants, suggests that FER might be a universal gene presented in all strategy I plants in controlling effective iron acquisition system in roots.

Different Plant Extracts against <i>Phytophthora infestans</i>(Mont.) de Bary in Tomato <i>in Vitro</i>

The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of plant extracts in managing late blight disease in tomato, in vitro. Crude extracts were from Plectranthus barbatus, Tephrosia vogelii, Sphaeranthus suaveolens and Lantana camara. These were compared with commercial formulations Otiva fungicide and untreated as negative control. Their effectiveness was determined by measuring the inhibition zone of the mycelial growth of the pathogen recorded in triplicate at 48 hours and 72 hours. The results showed significant differences (P ≤ 0.001) among the extracting solvents on percentage inhibition of Phytophthora infestans. Methanol was superior in inhibiting the growth of mycelial growth of P. infestans as compared with ethyl acetate. Furthermore, all plants tested showed antifungal activity against P. infestans. The P. barbatus, L. camara and S. suaveolens were comparable with the commercial fungicide in inhibiting the growth of P. infestans. In this study, T. vogelii extract showed poor results in inhibiting the mycelial growth of P. infestans as compared with other plant extracts. Also, it was observed that, there were significant (P < 0.05) interactive effects between solvent and plant extracts and between incubation time and plant extracts.

Functional identification of phenazine biosynthesis genes in plant pathogenic bacteria Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato and Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae

Phenazines are secondary metabolites with broad spectrum antibiotic activity and thus show high potential in biological control of pathogens. In this study, we identified phenazine biosynthesis （phz） genes in two genome-completed plant pathogenic bacteria Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato （Pst） DC3000 and Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae （Xoo） PXO99A. Unlike the phz genes in typical phenazine-producing pseudomonads, phz homologs in Pst DC3000 and Xoo PXO99A consisted of phzC/D/E/F/G and phzC/E1/E2/F/G, respectively, and the both were not organized into an operon. Detection experiments demonstrated that phenazine-l-carboxylic acid （PCA） of Pst DC3000 accumulated to 13.4 IJg L-1, while that of Xoo PXO99A was almost undetectable. Moreover, Pst DC3000 was resistant to 1 mg mL-1 PCA, while Xoo PXO99A was sensitive to 50 IJg mL ~ PCA. Furthermore, mutation of phzF blocked the PCA production and significantly reduced the pathogenicity of Pst DC3000 in tomato, while the complementary strains restored these phenotypes. These results revealed that Pst DC3000 produces low level of and is resistant to phenazines and thus is unable to be biologically controlled by phenazines. Additionally, phz-mediated PCA production is required for full pathogenicity of Pst DC3000. To our knowledge, this is the first report of PCA production and its function in pathogenicity of a plant pathogenic P. syringae strain.

Effect of Plant Density on the Yield of Hydroponically Grown Heat-Tolerant Tomato under Summer Temperature Conditions

Producing enough tomato to meet market demand sustainably has not been feasible in the tropics like Ghana. Attempts to improve production using greenhouse facilities have not addressed the challenge because of high-temperature conditions in the greenhouse, which are difficult to manage. Heat stress, arising from high temperatures, hinder the performance of tomato in terms of fruit set and yield. Moreover, the impending climate change is expected to impose more unfavorable environmental conditions on crop production. An experiment was conducted in (greenhouse at Chiba University, Japan) summer period, which has similar high-temperature conditions like Ghana. This work sought to increase the yield of a heat-tolerant tomato using a state-of-the-art hydroponic system through high-density planting. The outcome of this work was intended for adoption and practice in Ghana. A Heat-tolerant tomato “Nkansah HT” along with Lebombo and Jaguar cultivars, were grown at high and low plant densities (4.1 and 2.7 plants m-2 respectively). Each plant was grown in a low substrate volume culture (0.5 L plant-1) in a recirculating nutrient film technique (NFT) hydroponic system. Parameters measured were plant growth and dry matter assimilation at 12 weeks after transplanting, and the generative components. Results showed that a high plant density increased plant height but reduced chlorophyll content by 9.6%. Under temperature stress conditions, the three cultivars recorded more than 95% fruit set, but plant density did not affect the fruit set and the incidence of blossom end rot (BER). The incidence of BER reduced the marketable yield of the Jaguar cultivar by 51% but, this physiological disorder was not recorded in the HT and the Lebombo cultivars. A high-density planting increased the yield per unit area increased by 38.9%. However, it is uneconomical to cultivate the Jaguar cultivar under a heat stress condition due to its high susceptibility to blossom end rot. To improve the yield of tomatoes under tropical heat stress with a threatening climate change condition, the HT is a better cultivar suited for high-density planting. This study shows that high-density cultivation of the HT cultivar in NFT hydroponic system has the potential to increase Ghana’s current tomato yield by 4.8 times.

Botanicals and plant strengtheners for potato and tomato cultivation in Africa

This review provides a summary of botanicals and plant strengtheners that have potential uses for disease and pest management in potato and tomato cultivation in African.We discuss their possible use to prevent major diseases and pests which infest potato and tomato,such as early and late blight,bacterial wilt,potato tuber moth,and tomato leafminer.There are several examples of the successful uses of botanicals for pathogen and pest control relevant for different African climatic conditions;however,most of these studies have been conducted in vitro and often lack field verification.Plant strengtheners(substances that induce and improve crop resistance,yield,and quality)are little studied and used in Africa in comparison to North America and Europe.The possible benefits of using botanicals and plant strengtheners instead of conventional pesticides are discussed here in relation to human health and the environment as well as their modes of action and accessibility to farmers.Lack of knowledge of the composition and active ingredients of extracts,environmental concerns,uncertainties regarding stability and formulation,lack of legislation and limited support from governments,hamper the development of botanicals and plant strengtheners for use in sustainable African agriculture.

不同植物生长调节剂对浙南番茄穴盘育苗的影响

为筛选出适宜浙南地区番茄壮苗培育的植物生长调节剂,以不同浓度的YELVSU P2-37、多效唑、矮壮素、壮苗1号处理番茄砧木品种浙砧7号和接穗品种红樱1号,研究植物生长调节剂对番茄穴盘育苗的影响。结果表明,不同植物生长调节剂对不同品种番茄的处理效应不同,除对红樱1号茎粗、地下部干重和展叶宽无显著影响外,不同植物生长调节剂对红樱1号和浙砧7号的其他指标都有显著影响。所有生长调节剂对番茄株高都有抑制作用,但对其他指标不同生长调节剂作用不同。对于红樱1号,0.2 g·L^(-1)YELVSU P2-37处理的各生物量指标最高,同时种苗质量也最佳,为该品种壮苗培育的最佳植物生长调节剂;对于浙砧7号,0.13 g·L^(-1)YELVSU P2-37处理植株形态和种苗质量均为最佳,为该品种的推荐植物生长调节剂和适用浓度。

番茄两种虫媒传播的重要病毒病研究进展

近年来,番茄黄化曲叶病毒和番茄褪绿病毒对番茄生产造成了巨大的危害,这两种病毒都主要通过烟粉虱传播。本文对番茄黄化曲叶病毒病和番茄褪绿病毒病的扩散趋势、引起这两种病毒病的病原物特性及其发病症状差异、传播这两种病毒的主要媒介昆虫、烟粉虱媒介的危害及其研究概况、烟粉虱生物型的演化及其鉴定方法、烟粉虱和番茄两种病毒的互作以及烟粉虱媒介和番茄两种病毒病的防控等方面进行综述,以期为番茄病虫害的防控提供科学指导。

基于ORB-SLAM3的温室环境下番茄植株三维重建方法

针对当前生产环境下难以对植物进行精细三维重建的问题,提出一种基于ORB-SLAM3的番茄植株三维重建方法,利用深度相机采集RGB-D图像信息,根据前后帧图像特征点信息进行位姿估计,设计点云稠密重建模块,实现温室环境下番茄植株三维重建。结果表明,该方法在轨迹估计上整体表现较好,估计的轨迹没有重大漂移,较Elasticfusion方法、BadSlam方法估计的轨迹更贴合实际轨迹,位姿跟踪具有一定鲁棒性,且使用的关键帧数量较少,降低了冗余信息对算法的干扰;该方法重建的点云果径与实际果径平均绝对误差为1.48 mm,与实际情况十分接近,点云还原度高,重建品质较好,滤波算法没有对果实表型信息造成破坏,信息保留完整;该方法能够在温室环境下获取准确的位姿信息,并生成番茄植株三维模型,三维重建精度高,可以满足温室环境下番茄植株三维重建及番茄采摘机器人目标定位需要。

贝莱斯芽孢杆菌TMQ-KSL-1分离鉴定及其发酵液对番茄根结线虫的生防作用

镰刀菌(Fusarium spp.)和根结线虫(Meloidogyne spp.)都是植物的重要病原物,这两种病原物在寄主植物中存在着非常复杂的互作关系,可导致严重的植物土传病害。为探寻对番茄根结线虫病害具有高效防治作用的优良菌株,本研究以禾谷镰刀菌(Fusarium graminearum)为靶标病菌,采用平板稀释涂布法从多年种植番茄的设施大棚土壤中分离和筛选到一株抑菌效果较好的生防细菌菌株TMQ-KSL-1,根据形态特征、生理生化特性和16S rRNA基因测序对该菌株进行鉴定;测定不同浓度的发酵液及发酵上清液对根结线虫卵孵化率以及根结线虫二龄幼虫死亡率的影响,通过盆栽实验分析其发酵液对根结线虫病害的防治效果。结果表明,菌株TMQ-KSL-1具有较强的杀线虫活性,其发酵液和发酵上清液处理48 h线虫卵孵化抑制率分别为94.76%和90.72%;处理24 h番茄根结线虫二龄幼虫的校正死亡率分别为100%和97.37%;菌株TMQ-KSL-1发酵液100倍稀释液、200倍稀释液对番茄根结线虫病害防治效果分别为59.54%和12.14%,且100倍液处理防效与阿维菌素500倍液处理防效(61.56%)相当;地下鲜重分别提高了90.95%、19.65%。因此,菌株TMQ-KSL-1具有防控番茄根结线虫病害的能力,具有市场开发应用前景。

激素和蔗糖对番茄子叶节位侧芽萌发与生长的影响

【目的】研究激素和蔗糖对番茄子叶节位侧芽萌发和生长的影响,为培育番茄接穗双头苗提供理论依据。【方法】以子叶节位易萌发侧芽番茄TZ1502和不易萌发侧芽番茄TR1525为材料,通过比较打顶后内源激素含量、相关基因表达量变化,以及外源激素和蔗糖喷施对子叶节位侧芽萌发生长的影响,从激素水平和基因表达的角度探讨番茄子叶节位侧芽萌发的调控机理。【结果】打顶后2种番茄的IAA含量和生长素转运基因PIN1的相对表达量均先降低后增加,PIN1的相对表达量在TZ1502中高于TR1525;细胞分裂素合成基因IPT2的相对表达量在TZ1502打顶第3 d增加到最大值,而在TR1525中的相对表达量无显著变化(P>0.05);芽内负调控因子BRC1在TR1525中的相对表达量增加,且高于在TZ1502中的相对表达量。TZ1502侧芽萌发能力强于TR1525,表明打顶后侧芽萌发与IAA和CKs含量及其相关基因的表达有关,同时也与BRC1基因的表达有关。GR24和NAA通过下调IAA3和PIN1基因的表达降低IAA含量,下调IPT2和IPT3基因的表达降低CKs含量,以及上调BRC1基因表达;TIBA通过抑制PIN1基因的表达、上调BRC1基因表达,进而抑制侧芽萌发和生长。相反,蔗糖通过上调PIN1、IAA3、IPT2和IPT3基因的表达增加IAA和CKs的含量,抑制BRC1基因的表达,进而促进子叶节位侧芽萌发和生长。【结论】打顶后番茄TZ1502的子叶节位侧芽萌发能力比TR1525强。番茄子叶节位侧芽萌发与其基因型和激素相关,即IAA3和PIN1基因表达上调且IAA和CKs含量增加、BRC1基因表达下调促进侧芽萌发。培育番茄接穗双头苗,蔗糖外源处理促进子叶节位侧芽萌发和生长,调控作用与CKs的积累效应有关。

大棚蒜苗-番茄轮作模式

随着农业结构调整,曲沃县蔬菜产业发展迅速,尤其是设施蔬菜。为充分发挥曲沃县设施蔬菜生产优势,有效提高生产效益,该文根据曲沃县地域、气候、土壤等条件,结合多年生产经验,总结拱棚蒜苗-番茄高效种植模式,为设施蔬菜生产提供参考。

番茄种植技术及病虫害防治措施探讨

番茄深受人们的喜爱,在我国得到了广泛种植。为了给人们提供更加优质的番茄,需要借助全面系统的管理,使其整个生长过程不受外界因素的不利影响,促进其健康茁壮生长。对此,该文主要对番茄种植技术和病虫害防治措施进行了探讨,以供参考。

塑料大棚1年3茬蔬菜高效种植模式及核心技术探析

北京市顺义区种菜能手韩学斌的塑料大棚开展“生菜+番茄+生菜”1年3茬蔬菜种植模式,效益达48万元/hm^(2),实现了高产高效。文中介绍了该模式的茬口安排、微喷带灌溉设备的构成及技术优势,以及中间茬口感番茄和1、3茬结球生菜生产各环节的核心技术,以期为京郊其他菜农提供借鉴。