Method for identifying stressors in an agricultural environment based on characteristics of microbe sensors

Abstract

One variation of a method includes accessing an image of a plant canopy in an environment inhabited by: a population of microbe sensors of a microbe type including a microbe promoter-reporter pair configured to generate microbe-reporter signals representing presence of a stressor in the environment; and a set of sensor plants of a sensor plant type including a plant promoter-reporter pair configured to signal presence of microbe-reporter signals at the set of sensor plants. The method further includes: accessing a reporter model linking features extracted from images of sensor plants of the sensor plant type to pressures of the set of stressors based on plant-reporter signals generated by the plant promoter-reporter pair and microbe types of microbe sensors inhabiting the environment; and interpreting a pressure of the stressor in the environment based on the reporter model, the microbe type, and features extracted from the image.

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