Morphological traits of drought tolerant horse gram germplasm: classification through machine learning.

Journal: Journal of the science of food and agriculture
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Horse gram (Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc.) is an underutilized pulse crop with good drought resistance traits. It is a rich source of protein. Conventional breeding methods for high yielding and abiotic stress tolerant germplasm are hampered by the scarcity of morphological data sets. Thus, horse gram cultivars considered for this study is classified based on prevailing growth factors showing homogenous genotype in various agro ecological zones. Nowadays, several machine learning (ML) methods are used in the field of plant phenotyping.

Authors

  • Thomas Cheeran Amal
    Department of Botany, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • Asif T Thottathil
    Department of Statistics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • Kumarasamy P Veerakumari
    Department of Statistics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • Rajan Rakkiyappan
  • Krishnan Vasanth
    Department of Botany, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.