Recent Advances within Plant Spectroscopy: Selected Papers from the Third International Plant Spectroscopy Conference

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to collect selected contributions from the Third International Plant Spectroscopy Conference (IPSC), scheduled to take place in Nantes, France, on September 12–15, 2022, as arranged by the International Society for Plant Spectroscopy.

Plants are vital for life on Earth, and in times when a change toward sustainability is of critical importance, they provide renewable resources for virtually all aspects of our daily lives. Plants are vastly complicated, and while detailed knowledge about plant structure and chemistry is acutely needed, such knowledge is not easy to gain. The current Research Topic aims to present the state of the art within the use of different types of spectroscopies and fields related to the study of plants and plant-based products. A special field within plant spectroscopy is hyperspectral imaging, which collects and displays chemical information in a spatial context, often at a sub-cellular resolution. The techniques are used beyond chemical compositional analyses, to understand, e.g., plant growth and development, plant biomechanics and the genetic regulations of a wide range of processes.

Since the techniques generate vast amounts of data, chemometric tools are highly valuable in the field and will be covered as well.

The proposed Research Topic presents the latest findings and developments within all the above-mentioned aspects of plant spectroscopy.

Dr. András Gorzsás
Dr. Notburga Gierlinger
Dr. Marie-Françoise Devaux
Dr. Fabienne Guillon
Guest Editors

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