Plant Health Check: Emerging Methods for Disease Detection

Protecting crop health is critical in agriculture, driven by an increasing need for sustainable methods amid a growing worldwide population. This requirement has heightened the need for strong tactics, notably in the early and precise diagnosis of disease. This chapter focuses on plant health checks and investigates innovative approaches for disease detection in plants. It discusses the importance of early disease diagnosis to promote healthy and successful crop production. The chapter discusses technological advances in disease detection in plants, such as remote sensing, imaging techniques, and molecular tools. These advancements not only improve accuracy but also offer up new options for data analysis via artificial intelligence and machine learning. It also underlines the importance of early disease detection in order to implement effective interventions and mitigation techniques. Overall, this chapter presents a succinct review of current plant disease detection research and developments.