Active Thermography to analyze the real-time Plants response to UV-B irradiation

The effects that different doses of UV-B radiation can induce on plants have been analyzed in a great number of papers present in the literature but many aspects of the response mechanisms remain to be elucidated. In the present work, to the best of our knowledge, for the first time the UV-B - plants interaction is analyzed by the use of active thermography. The study highlights new aspects of the physiological response of the plants to UV-B radiation and it opens new opportunites for the use of the thermography as an important tool for real-time analysis of plants under UV-B.