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Tracking plant infection with imaging

Researchers at the Delft University of Technology have developed a method to monitor infections in lettuce in real time. They hope this research will help improve crop yields and bolster food security.

The study, which was published in Nature Communications, used dynamic optical coherence tomography (dOCT) to measure the spread of downy mildew infections in samples of lettuce. Traditionally, this process would involve killing the plant to determine pat…