Gloxinia—an open-source sensing platform to monitor the dynamic responses of plants
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- Olivier Pieters (UGent) , Tom De Swaef, Peter Lootens, Michiel Stock (UGent) , Isabel Roldán-Ruiz (UGent) and Francis wyffels (UGent)
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- Abstract
- The study of the dynamic responses of plants to short-term environmental changes is becoming increasingly important in basic plant science, phenotyping, breeding, crop management, and modelling. These short-term variations are crucial in plant adaptation to new environments and, consequently, in plant fitness and productivity. Scalable, versatile, accurate, and low-cost data-logging solutions are necessary to advance these fields and complement existing sensing platforms such as high-throughput phenotyping. However, current data logging and sensing platforms do not meet the requirements to monitor these responses. Therefore, a new modular data logging platform was designed, named Gloxinia. Different sensor boards are interconnected depending upon the needs, with the potential to scale to hundreds of sensors in a distributed sensor system. To demonstrate the architecture, two sensor boards were designed—one for single-ended measurements and one for lock-in amplifier based measurements, named Sylvatica and Planalta, respectively. To evaluate the performance of the system in small setups, a small-scale trial was conducted in a growth chamber. Expected plant dynamics were successfully captured, indicating proper operation of the system. Though a large scale trial was not performed, we expect the system to scale very well to larger setups. Additionally, the platform is open-source, enabling other users to easily build upon our work and perform application-specific optimisations.
- Keywords
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Analytical Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biochemistry, plant monitoring, real-time, data acquisition, sensor platform, phenotyping, STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE, RAPID CHANGES, SAP FLOW, WATER, PHOTOSYNTHESIS, THERMOGRAPHY, SENSORS, TOMATO, PHLOEM, IMPACT
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8663377
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- Pieters, Olivier, et al. “Gloxinia—an Open-Source Sensing Platform to Monitor the Dynamic Responses of Plants.” SENSORS, vol. 20, no. 11, 2020, doi:10.3390/s20113055.
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- Pieters, O., De Swaef, T., Lootens, P., Stock, M., Roldán-Ruiz, I., & wyffels, F. (2020). Gloxinia—an open-source sensing platform to monitor the dynamic responses of plants. SENSORS, 20(11). https://doi.org/10.3390/s20113055
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- Pieters, Olivier, Tom De Swaef, Peter Lootens, Michiel Stock, Isabel Roldán-Ruiz, and Francis wyffels. 2020. “Gloxinia—an Open-Source Sensing Platform to Monitor the Dynamic Responses of Plants.” SENSORS 20 (11). https://doi.org/10.3390/s20113055.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Pieters, Olivier, Tom De Swaef, Peter Lootens, Michiel Stock, Isabel Roldán-Ruiz, and Francis wyffels. 2020. “Gloxinia—an Open-Source Sensing Platform to Monitor the Dynamic Responses of Plants.” SENSORS 20 (11). doi:10.3390/s20113055.
- Vancouver
- 1.Pieters O, De Swaef T, Lootens P, Stock M, Roldán-Ruiz I, wyffels F. Gloxinia—an open-source sensing platform to monitor the dynamic responses of plants. SENSORS. 2020;20(11).
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- [1]O. Pieters, T. De Swaef, P. Lootens, M. Stock, I. Roldán-Ruiz, and F. wyffels, “Gloxinia—an open-source sensing platform to monitor the dynamic responses of plants,” SENSORS, vol. 20, no. 11, 2020.
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