ArticlePloS one2026
Predicting leaf traits in wine grapes with reflectance spectroscopy.
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Estimating crop trait data is critical for predicting crop responses to environmental change, enabling more informed diagnoses of crop performance and the development of on-farm management strategies. Yet, many traditional methods for quantifying plant traits are time-consuming and resource-intensive, limiting sample sizes and study durations. In response, high-throughput phenotyping-specifically reflectance spectroscopy-has emerged as a key element of plant trait research, enabling rapid estimation of plant traits. However, little is known about whether reflectance spectroscopy can detect within-species variation in resource acquisition and plant-water traits, especially variation that exists among different cultivars or genotypes of the same crop. Using wine grapes (V. vinifera subsp. vinifera) as a focal crop, this study aimed to assess the ability of reflectance spectroscopy to quantify intraspecific variation in 12 leaf traits across 12 different cultivars from seven different varieties. We find significant variability in traits across and within cultivars, especially in gas-exchange and hydraulic traits, with cultivars varying along a resource-conservative-to-resource-acquisitive trait axis. Models based on spectral reflectance data were able to differentiate and predict this fine-scale trait variation among cultivars for seven plant traits, with a predictive power range of R2 = 0.12-0.57. Models predicting leaf chemical (i.e., carbon and nitrogen concentrations), physiological (i.e., maximum rate of light-saturated photosynthesis), and morphological traits (i.e., leaf dry matter content) were more accurate in their predictions, while models predicting leaf water status were less accurate. Our results indicate that reflectance spectroscopy can capture certain dimensions of the fine-scale trait variation that exists within genetically diverse agroecosystems, though spectroscopic estimates of intraspecific variation in leaf water status are less accurate.
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