Recent Advances for Detecting and Addressing Plant Disease: Towards Future Farming

Abstract

Pests and pathogens inflict enormous financial harm on the global farming industry. Monitoring plant health and early pathogen detection is essential for facilitating successful management strategies and preventing the spread of disease. Various traditional methods and serological techniques have been found to be time-consuming and require handling skill. Also, the reliability of the result is uncertain, and it is hard to diagnose the pathogen during asymptomatic stages. Hence, the innovative sensors based on host reactions assessment, phage display-based biosensors, and bio-photonics in combination with other systems, remote sensing techniques integrated with spectroscopy-based approaches allow for high spatialization of data; these techniques could mainly be of immediate benefit for initial identification of infection and early control with limiting the use of Systemic Fungicides and developing a sustainable environment with high yield.