Biosensing Technology in Agriculture and Biological Products
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 1489
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart urban agriculture; artificial intelligence; automated control; plant phenotyping; computer vision; crop plant signaling; machine (deep) learning; food processing and safety; fluorescence imaging; hyper/multispectral imaging; Vis/NIR/MIR imaging spectroscopy
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Interests: plant phenotyping; chlorophyll fluorescence; hyperspectral reflectance; thermography; plant stress detection
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change poses a threat to the sustainable development of agriculture and biosystems. A great challenge for agricultural and biological science is to ensure that crop yields and bioproduct quality meet the demands of a growing population in the future. The interaction between genotypes and their environments controls the biophysical properties of crop plants, manifested in observable traits, i.e., plant phenotypes, which influence resource acquisition, performance, and yield. Moreover, the demand for the high quality and safety of agricultural products requires appropriate analytical tools to investigate them in order to achieve high standards of food quality and process control. With the rapid development of biosensing, fluorescence and spectroscopic techniques are becoming preferred tools for phenotypic analyses of crop plants, as well as for quality and safety analyses of bioproducts. In this Special Issue, we encourage the submission of original research articles and review articles on recent findings in advanced methods based on fluorescence and spectroscopy to assess complex plant traits, such as growth, development, tolerance, resistance, architecture, and physiology, as well as the safety and nutrients of postharvest agricultural and biological products to meet the planet's need for plentiful, nutritious, and flavorful product supplies.
Dr. Wen-Hao Su
Dr. María Luisa Pérez-Bueno
Guest Editors
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