A Discriminative Model for Early Detection of Anthracnose in Strawberry Plants Based on Hyperspectral Imaging Technology

Strawberry anthracnose, caused by Colletotrichum spp., is a major disease that causes tremendous damage to cultivated strawberry plants (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.). Examining and distinguishing plants potentially carrying the pathogen is one of the most effective ways to prevent and control strawberry anthracnose disease. Herein, we used this method on Colletotrichum gloeosporioides at the crown site on indoor strawberry plants and established a classification and distinguishing model based on measurement of the spectral and textural characteristics of the disease-free zone near the disease center. The results, based on the successive projection algorithm (SPA), competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS), and interval random frog (IRF), extracted 5, 14, and 11 characteristic wavelengths, respectively. The SPA extracted fewer effective characteristic wavelengths, while IRF covered more information. A total of 12 dimensional texture features (TFs) were extracted from the first three minimum noise fraction (MNF) images using a grayscale co-occurrence matrix (GLCM). The combined dataset modeling of spectral and TFs performed better than single-feature modeling. The accuracy rates of the IRF + TF + BP model test set for healthy, asymptomatic, and symptomatic samples were 99.1%, 93.5%, and 94.5%, the recall rates were 100%, 94%, and 93%, and the F1 scores were 0.9955, 0.9375, and 0.9374, respectively. The total modeling time was 10.9 s, meaning that this model demonstrated the best comprehensive performance of all the constructed models. The model lays a technical foundation for the early, non-destructive detection of strawberry anthracnose.