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Abstract

Various diseases and pests cause serious damage to vegetable crops during the growing season and after harvesting. Growers attempt to minimize losses by protecting their crops, starting with seed and seedling treatments and followed by monitoring their stands. In many cases, synthetic pesticide treatments are applied. Integrated pest management is currently being employed to minimize the impact of pesticides upon human health and the environment. Over the last few years, “smart” approaches have been developed and adopted in practice to predict, detect, and quantify phytopathogen occurrence and contamination. Our review assesses the currently available ready-to-use tools and methodologies that operate via visual estimation, the detection of proteins and DNA/RNA sequences, and the utilization of brand-new innovative approaches, highlighting the availability of solutions that can be used by growers during the process of diagnosing pathogens.

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Title
Applicability of Smart Tools in Vegetable Disease Diagnostics
Author
Ovesná, Jaroslava 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Kaminiaris, Michail D 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Tsiropoulos, Zisis 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Collier, Rosemary 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Kelly, Alex 3 ; De Mey, Jonathan 4 ; Pollet, Sabien 4 

 Crop Research Institute, Drnovská 507, 161 06 Prague, Czech Republic 
 Agricultural & Environmental Solutions (AGENSO), Markou Mpotsari 47, 11742 Athens, Greece 
 Warwick Crop Centre, School of Life Sciences, The University of Warwick, Wellesbourne, Warwick CV35 9EF, UK 
 Inagro, Ieperseweg 87, Rumbeke, 8800 Roeselare, Belgium 
First page
1211
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20734395
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2819263710
Copyright
© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.