A Smartphone-Based Method for Assessing Tomato Nutrient Status through Trichome Density Measurement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19513v2
• Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:50:13 GMT
• Title: A Smartphone-Based Method for Assessing Tomato Nutrient Status through Trichome Density Measurement
• Authors: Sho Ueda, Xujun Ye,
• Abstract summary: Early detection of fertilizer-induced stress in tomato plants is crucial for timely crop management interventions and yield optimization. This study proposes a novel, noninvasive technique for quantifying the density of trichomes-elongated hair-like structures found on plant surfaces-on young leaves using a smartphone.
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• Abstract: Early detection of fertilizer-induced stress in tomato plants is crucial for timely crop management interventions and yield optimization. Conventional optical methods detect fertilizer stress in young leaves with difficulty. This study proposes a novel, noninvasive technique for quantifying the density of trichomes-elongated hair-like structures found on plant surfaces-on young leaves using a smartphone. This method exhibits superior detection latency, enabling earlier and more accurate identification of fertilizer stress in tomato plants. Our approach combines augmented reality technology and image processing algorithms to analyze smartphone images of a specialized measurement paper. This measurement paper is applied to a tomato leaf to transfer trichomes onto its adhesive surface. The captured images are then processed through a pipeline involving region of interest extraction, perspective transformation, and illumination correction. Trichome detection and spatial distribution analysis of these preprocessed images yield a robust density metric. We validated our method through experiments on hydroponically grown tomatoes under varying fertilizer concentrations. Using leave-one-out cross-validation (LOOCV), our model achieves a mean area under the precision-recall curve of 0.824 and a receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.641 for predicting additional fertilization needs. Based on LOOCV, quantitative analysis revealed a strong relationship between trichome density and explanatory variables, including nitrate ion concentration, explaining 62.48% of the variation ($R^2 = 0.625$). The predicted and actual trichome densities were strongly correlated ($r = 0.794$). This straightforward and cost-effective method overcomes the limitations of traditional techniques, demonstrating the potential of using smartphones for practical plant nutrition diagnosis.

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