food security

Light sensors detect larval pests munching on date palms

1 min read · Mon, May 4 2020

electrical engineering food security sensors

Optical fibers wrapped around date palm trunks could help detect this tree’s most destructive pest early enough to save it.

Yveline Pailles

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Photonics Laboratory

light plant adaptation plant physiology food security evolutionary biology

Yveline Pailles was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Photonics Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). She is currently studying the effect of pulsed single-wavelength laser on growth and development of basil (Ocimum basilicum. L). She received her bachelor's degree in Food Industry Engineering from ITESM Campus Queretaro, Mexico, and her master's and Ph.D. degrees in Desert Agriculture, Bioscience from KAUST. During her master's studies, she discovered her interest in plant science and became part of the Plant Stress Genomics Research Center. Later on, she