Notice of Retraction Measuring plant stem water content by Standing-Wave Ratio

Notice of Retraction After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles. We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper. The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org. This For the determination of plant water content on-line, a sensor based on SWR (Standing-Wave Ratio) measurement principle was developed. To evaluate the feasibility of the proposed technique, a comparative experiment between the developed sensor (BD-II sensor) and SF-L (SF Type Sap Flow Systems, Germany) has been conducted over the past two years. The experimental results obtained from both instruments show a good agreement (R2=0.76). Therefore, the proposed technique is a promising tool in dynamically monitoring plant stem water.