“Turning A New Leaf” Development of Spectroscopic Protocols to Study Plant Health

Improved methods to monitor plant health may be pivotal for future protection of crops from disease and environmental stressors. Epicuticular waxes, and macronutrients (K+ and Ca2+) hold important physiological functions within plants, and are therefore, excellent markers of plant health. This thesi...

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Main Author: Khambatta, Karina
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2022
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92721
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description Improved methods to monitor plant health may be pivotal for future protection of crops from disease and environmental stressors. Epicuticular waxes, and macronutrients (K+ and Ca2+) hold important physiological functions within plants, and are therefore, excellent markers of plant health. This thesis has developed new spectroscopic analytical methods to directly image changes in epicuticular waxes and Ca2+ and K+ on plant leaves, for future application to monitor plant health.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-927212023-07-10T01:07:38Z “Turning A New Leaf” Development of Spectroscopic Protocols to Study Plant Health Khambatta, Karina Improved methods to monitor plant health may be pivotal for future protection of crops from disease and environmental stressors. Epicuticular waxes, and macronutrients (K+ and Ca2+) hold important physiological functions within plants, and are therefore, excellent markers of plant health. This thesis has developed new spectroscopic analytical methods to directly image changes in epicuticular waxes and Ca2+ and K+ on plant leaves, for future application to monitor plant health. 2022 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92721 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Khambatta, Karina
“Turning A New Leaf” Development of Spectroscopic Protocols to Study Plant Health
title “Turning A New Leaf” Development of Spectroscopic Protocols to Study Plant Health
title_full “Turning A New Leaf” Development of Spectroscopic Protocols to Study Plant Health
title_fullStr “Turning A New Leaf” Development of Spectroscopic Protocols to Study Plant Health
title_full_unstemmed “Turning A New Leaf” Development of Spectroscopic Protocols to Study Plant Health
title_short “Turning A New Leaf” Development of Spectroscopic Protocols to Study Plant Health
title_sort “turning a new leaf” development of spectroscopic protocols to study plant health
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92721