Cohabiting Plant-Wearable Sensor In Situ Monitors Water Transport in Plant.

ABSTRACT: The boom of plant phenotype highlights the need to measure the physiological characteristics of an individual plant. However, continuous real-time monitoring of a plant's internal physiological status remains challenging using traditional silicon-based sensor technology, due to the fundamental mismatch between rigid sensors and soft and curved plant surfaces. Here, the first flexible electronic sensing device is reported that can harmlessly cohabitate with the plant and continuously monitor its stem sap flow, a critical plant physiological characteristic for analyzing plant health, water consumption, and nutrient distribution. Due to a special design and the materials chosen, the realized plant-wearable sensor is thin, soft, lightweight, air/water/light-permeable, and shows excellent bioco

SUBMITTER: Chai Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8132156 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature