Biosensors for Determination of Harvest Quality Parameters, Sorting and Grading

BiosensorsBiosensor are crucial devices that have greatly evolved as a powerful sensingSensing tool for rapid and simple evaluation of various food and agriculturalAgricultural productsProduct. It demonstrates huge potential in numerous agriculturalAgricultural applicationsApplications including crop qualityCrop quality monitoringMonitoring, sortingSorting, and gradingGrading processes. Recent advances in biosensorsBiosensor have played a key role in various agriculturalAgricultural purposes since it provides accurate, easy handling, portable, and non-destructive measurement of the sample. In this chapter, the principles and types of biosensorsBiosensor including electrochemical biosensorsElectrochemical biosensors, mass-based biosensorsBiosensor, and optical biosensorsOptical biosensor are discussed. A comprehensive overview of biosensorsBiosensor for the determination of crop qualityCrop quality as well as sortingSorting and gradingGrading of agriculturalAgricultural productsProduct is presented. Various applicationsApplications of biosensorsBiosensor for pre-harvestPreharvest agricultureAgriculture including plant pathogen detectionPathogen detection, soil analysisSoil analysis as well as nutrient monitoringNutrient monitoring were discussed. To ensure the optimum harvestHarvest quality, it is important to monitor the process at an early detectionEarly detection for selecting the best applicationsApplications using biosensorsBiosensor. There is a lot of interest in creating new biosensing technologiesTechnology for the early identification of crops with high sensitivitySensitivity and specificity. The challenges and limitations in the applicationApplications of biosensorsBiosensor are also addressed. In addition, some perspectives on the current situation and future trends in using biosensorsBiosensor are highlighted. The enhancement in the technological developmentDevelopment of biosensorsBiosensor has significantly influenced widespread applicationsApplications in the agricultureAgriculture sector.