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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Functional unfold principal component analysis for automatic plant-based stress detection in grapevine

Annelies Baert A C , Kris Villez B and Kathy Steppe A
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A Department of Applied Ecology and Environmental Biology, Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure links 653, 9000 Gent, Belgium.

B Laboratory for Intelligent Process Systems, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.

C Corresponding author. Email: aebaert.baert@ugent.be

Functional Plant Biology 39(6) 519-530 https://doi.org/10.1071/FP12007
Submitted: 10 January 2012  Accepted: 26 April 2012   Published: 22 May 2012

Abstract

Detection of drought stress is of great importance in grapevines because the plant’s water status strongly affects the quality of the grapes and hence, resulting wine. Measurements of stem diameter variations show promise for detecting drought stress, but they depend strongly on microclimatic changes. Tools for advanced data analysis might be helpful to distinguish drought from microclimate effects. To this end, we explored the possibilities of two data mining techniques: Unfold principal component analysis (UPCA) – an already established tool in several biotechnological domains – and functional unfold principal component analysis (FUPCA) – a newer technique combining functional data analysis with UPCA. With FUPCA, the original, multivariate time series of variables are first approximated by fitting the least-squares optimal linear combination of orthonomal basis functions. The resulting coefficients of these linear combinations are then subjected to UPCA. Both techniques were used to detect when the measured stem diameter variations in grapevine deviated from their normal conditions due to drought stress. Stress was detected with both UPCA and FUPCA days before visible symptoms appeared. However, FUPCA is less complex in the statistical sense and more robust than original UPCA modelling. Moreover, FUPCA can handle days with missing data, which is not possible with UPCA.

Additional keywords: drought stress, functional data analysis, statistical process control, stem diameter variations, Vitis vinifera.


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