23-Sep-2021 | Market Research Store
AI-powered mobile detectors in agricultural fields to recognize crop diseases could revolutionize the agriculture sector as in every country the food demand is increasing at a fast rate due to an increase in population. Moreover, the extensive use of technology these days has increased the accuracy and efficacy of disease diagnostic tools in plants and animals. Thanks to the innovative study conducted by the scientists at the Imperial College London. The team has been able to identify the first-ever mobile NLR immune response receptor that could sense the microbesinvading the plants.
Dr. Cian Duggan, under whose guidance this research was carried out, mentioned that over 30% of the farmers across the globe deal with pest issues, which resulted in the devastation of crops followed by financial loss. He also mentioned that the comprehensive understanding of a plant immune system and its response against the invading pathogen helped the team to formulate new strategies against the pathogenic microorganisms. In order to obtain satisfactory research outcomes, the researchers studied the mode of action of Phytophthora infestans—a causative agent of potato blight—under restricted conditions. The team used fluorescent biomarkers to comprehend the series of cell responses and reactions in the immune system of potato plants with an NLR variant.
The NLR variant was effective to inform scientists that following the invasion, the pathogen forms a specialized membranous structure around the area where the microbes release proteins. Dr.Cian observed that once the proteins are released, NLRs would transform to puncta. These are visible as bright spots under the confocal microscope and are named resistosomes with the purpose to destroyplant tissues, thereby starving the plants to death.
Researchers considered that by acquainting more information regarding plant disease automation, more NLR variants would be developed that will assist in emerging the diversity of disease-free crops.
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