Origin, Development, and Applications of Air-Coupled Broadband Ultrasounds for the Study of Tissues and Water Relations in Plant Leaves: A Review

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The work of Lola Farinas was supported in part by MICINN (Spain) through the program Juan de la Cierva-Incorporacion under Grant JC2020-043487-I, and in part by the European Union NextGenerationEU.

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Sancho-Knapik, DomingoAuthorPeguero-Pina, Jose JAuthorGil, EustaquioAuthor

February 9, 2025

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Publicated to:Ieee Open Journal Of Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, And Frequency Control. 4 77-88 - 2024-01-01 4(), DOI: 10.1109/ojuffc.2024.3433316

Authors: Farinas, Lola; Sancho-Knapik, Domingo; Peguero-Pina, Jose J; Gil-Pelegrin, Eustaquio; Alvarez-Arenas, Tomas E Gomez

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Agri Food Res & Technol Ctr Aragon CITA, Dept Agr & Forest Syst & Environm, Zaragoza 50059, Spain - Author

CSIC, Estacion Expt Aula, Zaragoza 50018, Spain - Author

CSIC, Informat & Phys Technol Inst, Sensors & Ultrason Technol Dept, Madrid 28006, Spain - Author

Ikerbasque, Basque Fdn Sci, Bilbao 48009, Spain - Author

Sistemas Agrícolas, Forestales y Medio Ambiente. Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón - Author

Univ Deusto, Dept Mech Design & Ind Management, Bilbao 48007, Spain - Author

Abstract

This paper reviews the origin, development and use of air-coupled ultrasonic techniques for the study of plant leaf tissues and their water relations. The two techniques proposed so far are included: Non-Contact Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy and Non-Resonant Time Domain Transmittance. While both are completely non-invasive, non-destructive and fast, the former has been used to determine water potential, turgor loss point and differential behavior of various leaf tissues, and has been extensively tested for different species, both in vivo and ex vivo in parallel with in-field experiments; while the latter has recently been proposed as a universal technique that can be applied to plant leaves regardless of the possibility of exciting thickness resonances.

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Acoustic characteristicsAir-coupled ultrasoundClean water and sanitationDesignEspectroscopiaHojasMechanical-propertiesMesophyllModeMonitoring plantPlant leavesPressureSensoresSpectroscopyThickness resonancesTime domain transmittancTurgor loss pointUltrasonic spectroscopyUltrasonidoWater relations

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The work has been published in the journal Ieee Open Journal Of Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, And Frequency Control due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position 9/41, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Acoustics.