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标题：Biophotonic approach for the characterization of initial bitter-rot progression on apple specimens using optical coherence tomography assessments
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作者：Ruchire Eranga Wijesinghe ; Seung-Yeol Lee ; Naresh Kumar Ravichandran 等
期刊名称：Scientific Reports
电子版ISSN：2045-2322
出版年度：2018
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：15816
DOI：10.1038/s41598-018-33791-3
语种：English
出版社：Springer Nature
摘要：The tremendous advances achieved in the biophotonics technologies have intensified the necessity for non-invasive modalities that can characterize diverse biological materials with increased sensitivity and resolution. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is one of the techniques that has been applied for biological applications in medicine and agriculture to identify structural properties. Herein, we report the successful incorporation of OCT for the identification of morphological changes that occur as a result of the bitter rot disease, through continuous detection of structural changes. Detailed inner morphological structural changes occurring in fruit specimens were precisely analyzed as a function of the disease incubation period using OCT. The conducted histological correlation and quantitative three-dimensional evaluations provide a robust platform for further discoveries related to plant materials. The results highlight the initial identification of bitter rot progression on apple specimens owing to the non-invasive inspection capability of OCT. Therefore, we expect that the proposed method will enable immediate sensitivity improvements in the inspection of plant diseases for postharvest utility.