Concise Cascade Methods for Transgenic Rice Seed Discrimination using Spectral Phenotyping.

Currently, the presence of genetically modified (GM) organisms in agro-food markets is strictly regulated by enacted legislation worldwide. It is essential to ensure the traceability of these transgenic products for food safety, consumer choice, environmental monitoring, market integrity, and scientific research. However, detecting the existence of GM organisms involves a combination of complex, time-consuming, and labor-intensive techniques requiring high-level professional skills.

Dynamic UAV Phenotyping for Rice Disease Resistance Analysis Based on Multisource Data.

Bacterial blight poses a threat to rice production and food security, which can be controlled through large-scale breeding efforts toward resistant cultivars. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing provides an alternative means for the infield phenotype evaluation of crop disease resistance to relatively time-consuming and laborious traditional methods. However, the quality of data acquired by UAV can be affected by several factors such as weather, crop growth period, and geographical location, which can limit their utility for the detection of crop disease and resistant phenotypes.

Evaluation of rice bacterial blight severity from lab to field with hyperspectral imaging technique.

Hyperspectral imaging technique combined with machine learning is a powerful tool for the evaluation of disease phenotype in rice disease-resistant breeding. However, the current studies are almost carried out in the lab environment, which is difficult to apply to the field environment. In this paper, we used visible/near-infrared hyperspectral images to analysis the severity of rice bacterial blight (BB) and proposed a novel disease index construction strategy (NDSCI) for field application.

Rice bacterial blight resistant cultivar selection based on visible/near-infrared spectrum and deep learning.

Background: Rice bacterial blight (BB) has caused serious damage in rice yield and quality leading to huge economic loss and food safety problems. Breeding disease resistant cultivar becomes the eco-friendliest and most effective alternative to regulate its outburst, since the propagation of pathogenic bacteria is restrained. However, the BB resistance cultivar selection suffers tremendous labor cost, low efficiency, and subjective human error.

Structure analysis and non-invasive detection of cadmium-phytochelatin2 complexes in plant by deep learning Raman spectrum.

Plants synthesize phytochelatins to chelate in vivo toxic heavy metal ions and produce nontoxic complexes for tolerating the stress. Detection of the complexes would simplify the identification of high phytoremediation cultivars, as well as assessment of plant food for safe consumption. Thus, a confocal Raman spectroscopy combined with density functional theory and deep learning was used for characterizing phytochelatin2 (PC), and Cd-PC mixtures.

Assessment of the vigor of rice seeds by near-infrared hyperspectral imaging combined with transfer learning.

Rice seed vigor plays a significant role in determining the quality and quantity of rice production. Thus, the quick and non-destructive identification of seed vigor is not only beneficial to fully obtain the state of rice seeds but also the intelligent development of agriculture by instant monitoring. Thus, herein, near-infrared hyperspectral imaging technology, as an information acquisition tool, was introduced combined with a deep learning algorithm to identify the rice seed vigor.

Identification of Bacterial Blight Resistant Rice Seeds Using Terahertz Imaging and Hyperspectral Imaging Combined With Convolutional Neural Network.

Because bacterial blight (BB) disease seriously affects the yield and quality of rice, breeding BB resistant rice is an important priority for plant breeders but the process is time-consuming. The feasibility of using terahertz imaging technology and near-infrared hyperspectral imaging technology to identify BB resistant seeds has therefore been studied. The two-dimensional (2D) spectral images and one-dimensional (1D) spectra provided by both imaging methods were used to build discriminant models based on a deep learning method, the convolutional neural network (CNN), and traditional machine learning methods, support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF), and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA).

Variety Identification of Orchids Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Combined with Stacked Sparse Auto-Encoder.

The feasibility of using the fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic technique with a stacked sparse auto-encoder (SSAE) to identify orchid varieties was studied. Spectral data of 13 orchids varieties covering the spectral range of 4000-550 cm were acquired to establish discriminant models and to select optimal spectral variables. K nearest neighbors (KNN), support vector machine (SVM), and SSAE models were built using full spectra.