Rahul Raman, Haly L. Neely, Nithya Rajan, Mahendra Bhandari, Jeffrey Siegfried, Amir M. H. Ibrahim, Curtis B. Adams, Robert H. Hardin
{"title":"UAS-derived vegetation indices detect wheat leaf rust infection and its influence on grain yield and canopy temperature","authors":"Rahul Raman, Haly L. Neely, Nithya Rajan, Mahendra Bhandari, Jeffrey Siegfried, Amir M. H. Ibrahim, Curtis B. Adams, Robert H. Hardin","doi":"10.1002/csc2.70062","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Leaf rust is a major biotic factor affecting wheat yield globally. However, the visual scoring technique to assess fungal disease in breeding programs requires significant expert manual labor and time. Unmanned aerial systems have the potential to scan large acreage in a short time for disease screening. An experiment was conducted at College Station and Castroville, TX, in 2018–2019 and 2019–2020 to assess the performance of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), normalized difference red edge index (NDRE), and green chlorophyll index (GCI) in detecting leaf rust infection. Other measurements included proximal canopy temperature, grain yield, and visual screening for infection type and severity. A significant positive relationship (<i>p</i> < 0.001; <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.42–0.62) of grain yield with all three vegetation indices (VIs) was observed in mid-April 2019 at College Station. At College Station, the highest leaf rust severity coincided with the senescence stage in mid-April 2020. No relationship between the VIs and grain yield was observed. In mid-April 2020, when the leaf rust infection was high, the VIs showed a significant negative relationship (<i>p</i> < 0.05; <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.27) with grain yield at Castroville. All three VIs showed a significant linear negative relationship with canopy temperature at College Station (<i>p</i> < 0.05; <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.3–0.34) and Castroville (<i>p</i> < 0.001; <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.52–0.54) in mid-April 2020. At high leaf rust severity, the repeatability of GCI was less than NDVI and NDRE at both locations in 2019 and 2020. These results may differ if multiple factors affect winter wheat simultaneously.</p>","PeriodicalId":10849,"journal":{"name":"Crop Science","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/csc2.70062","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Crop Science","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/csc2.70062","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"AGRONOMY","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
Leaf rust is a major biotic factor affecting wheat yield globally. However, the visual scoring technique to assess fungal disease in breeding programs requires significant expert manual labor and time. Unmanned aerial systems have the potential to scan large acreage in a short time for disease screening. An experiment was conducted at College Station and Castroville, TX, in 2018–2019 and 2019–2020 to assess the performance of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), normalized difference red edge index (NDRE), and green chlorophyll index (GCI) in detecting leaf rust infection. Other measurements included proximal canopy temperature, grain yield, and visual screening for infection type and severity. A significant positive relationship (p < 0.001; R2 = 0.42–0.62) of grain yield with all three vegetation indices (VIs) was observed in mid-April 2019 at College Station. At College Station, the highest leaf rust severity coincided with the senescence stage in mid-April 2020. No relationship between the VIs and grain yield was observed. In mid-April 2020, when the leaf rust infection was high, the VIs showed a significant negative relationship (p < 0.05; R2 = 0.27) with grain yield at Castroville. All three VIs showed a significant linear negative relationship with canopy temperature at College Station (p < 0.05; R2 = 0.3–0.34) and Castroville (p < 0.001; R2 = 0.52–0.54) in mid-April 2020. At high leaf rust severity, the repeatability of GCI was less than NDVI and NDRE at both locations in 2019 and 2020. These results may differ if multiple factors affect winter wheat simultaneously.
期刊介绍:
Articles in Crop Science are of interest to researchers, policy makers, educators, and practitioners. The scope of articles in Crop Science includes crop breeding and genetics; crop physiology and metabolism; crop ecology, production, and management; seed physiology, production, and technology; turfgrass science; forage and grazing land ecology and management; genomics, molecular genetics, and biotechnology; germplasm collections and their use; and biomedical, health beneficial, and nutritionally enhanced plants. Crop Science publishes thematic collections of articles across its scope and includes topical Review and Interpretation, and Perspectives articles.