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- Title
CANOPY REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS USED TO ESTIMATE LATE BLIGHT (PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS) INFLUENCE ON POTATO YIELD.
- Authors
Hermeziu, Manuela
- Abstract
The present study was conducted to investigate potato late blight (Phytophtora infestans) influence on leaf chlorophyll level using datasets extracted from multispectral data captured at the canopy level. Field experiments were carried out to the National Institute of Research and Development for Potato and Sugar Beet Brasov, Romania in 2014-2016 period. It was used a complete randomized block design with four replicates, two planting distances between plants on row (25 and 30cm) and different fungicides, control technologies. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) was introduced to achieve a spectral vegetation index that can separate the vegetation from the uncovered ground. It is defined as the ratio between the infrared bands-red differences and sum them. Due to the different growth conditions, the effects of resulting variants from combinations of factors -varieties-planting density-late blight control technology-on the tubers yield have manifested with different intensity. In two of three years, the average NDVI value of plants grown at a density of 53.3 thousands hill/ha was significantly lower than the values determined at a density of 44.4 thousands hill/ha (NDVI 0.817 compared to 0.859 in 2014 and 0.905 compared to 0.895 in 2015). The correlation between the average values of NDVI yields and tubers were positive.
- Subjects
LATE blight of potato; SUGAR beets; FUNGICIDES; NORMALIZED difference vegetation index; AGRICULTURAL productivity
- Publication
Romanian Journal for Plant Protection, 2020, Vol 13, p21
- ISSN
2248-129X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.54574/rjpp.13.03