Monitoring agrochemical diffusion through cuticle wax with coherent Raman scattering

Nicholas P. Gaunt; Niall Thomson; Faheem Padia; Julian Moger

doi:10.1117/12.2289746

23 February 2018 Monitoring agrochemical diffusion through cuticle wax with coherent Raman scattering

Nicholas P. Gaunt, Niall Thomson, Faheem Padia, Julian Moger

Proceedings Volume 10498, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XVIII; 1049836 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2289746
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The world’s population is increasing rapidly and higher calorific diets are becoming more common; as a consequence the demand for grain is predicted to increase by more than 50% by 2050 without a significant increase in the available agricultural land. Maximising the productivity of the existing agricultural land is key to maintaining food security and agrochemicals continue to be a key enabler for the efficiency gains required. However, agrochemicals can be susceptible to significant losses and thus often require further chemical to be applied to compensate. Sources of such losses include spray drift, poor spray retention/capture by the target and poor penetration through the plant cuticle. Adjuvants can be used to help mitigate such losses but characterising how they alter the movement of the active ingredients (AIs) can be challenging. In this contribution we demonstrate the use of coherent Raman Scattering (CRS) as a tool to enable in-situ, real-time, label free characterisation of agrochemical AI as they move through wax.

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Nicholas P. Gaunt, Niall Thomson, Faheem Padia, and Julian Moger "Monitoring agrochemical diffusion through cuticle wax with coherent Raman scattering", Proc. SPIE 10498, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XVIII, 1049836 (23 February 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2289746

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