Are leaf chlorophyll fluorescence and Dark Green stressor-specific fingerprints in grapevine under drought or salt stress? A reanalysis study

Abstract

Early and accurate recognition of abiotic stress types is essential for accelerating the selection of stress-tolerant varieties and implementing effective management strategies. This study is motivated by the socio-economic relevance of vineyard and by the increasing need for stressor-specific fingerprint(s) to support the reliable identification of stress type (e.g., drought or salinity) within a high-throughput plant phenotyping domain. This paper presents a reanalysis of physiological and phenotyping data from drought and salt stress experiments in Vitis vinifera focussing the maximum photosynthetic efficiency ( F v / F m ) and leaf Dark Green color. The reanalysis suggests that salt-stressed vines might suffer additional (non-stomatal) limitations curbing net photosynthetic rate (Pn) severely as drought stress does at equivalent stomatal conductance ( g s ) levels. Through a Principal Component (PC) Analysis, physiological and colorimetric response variables were decomposed revealing that F v / F m and Dark Green dominates the non-stomatal PC (∼80%) clustering data between salt and drought experiments. Confusion matrices reveal that model based on F v / F m and Dark Green performed better (accuracy = 1, precision =1) than that based on Pn, g s , transpiration, and stem water potential. This study supports the potential use of F v / F m and Dark Green for early and non-destructive stress type identification.

Plant phenotyping relevance

既存の生理・色彩形質を用いてストレス種を識別する解析手法を再評価し、特徴量の比較と混同行列による性能検証を行っており、フェノタイピング手法の評価が中心である。

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