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Scientific reports
May 13, 2025
The global seed coating market is expected to experience substantial growth, increasing from a 2023 valuation of USD 2.0 billion to an estimated value of USD 3.1 billion by 2028. This growth surge is primarily due to the consistent introduction of in...
Scientific reports
Feb 26, 2025
Agriculture, particularly fruit production, is considered a crucial industry with a significant economic impact in many countries. Extreme fluctuations in air temperature can negatively affect the flowering periods of fruit species. Therefore, it is ...
Bioresource technology
Dec 26, 2024
Evaluating compost maturity, e.g. via manual seed germination index (GI) measurement, is both time-consuming and costly during composting. This study employed six machine learning methods, including random forest (RF), extra tree (ET), eXtreme gradie...
PloS one
Dec 23, 2024
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) is known to release allelopathic substances to affect the germination and growth of other plants, which have the potential to be applied in controlling weeds. Green foxtail (Setaria viridis) and barnyardgrass (Echinochloa cr...
Bioresource technology
Apr 6, 2024
The measurement of germination index (GI) in composting is a time-consuming and laborious process. This study employed four machine learning (ML) models, namely Random Forest (RF), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Support Vector Regression (SVR), and...
Journal of the science of food and agriculture
Nov 24, 2022
BACKGROUND: Rice is an important food crop plant in the world and is also a model plant for genetics and breeding research. The germination rate is an important indicator that measures the performance of rice seeds. Currently, solutions involving ima...
Environmental science and pollution research international
Jul 4, 2022
Plants need to survive with changing environmental conditions, be it different accessibility to water or nutrients, or attack by insects or pathogens. Few of these changes, especially heavy metal stress, can become more stressful and needed strong co...
Journal of experimental botany
Nov 21, 2023
In vitro pollen germination is considered the most efficient method to assess pollen viability. The pollen germination frequency and pollen tube length, which are key indicators of pollen viability, should be accurately measured during in vitro cultu...
Scientific reports
Nov 11, 2021
Achieving seed germination quality standards poses a real challenge to seed companies as they are compelled to abide by strict certification rules, while having only partial seed separation solutions at their disposal. This discrepancy results with w...
Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy
May 15, 2021
How to quickly and accurately select sugarbeet seeds with reliable germination is very important to sugarbeet planting. In this study, the hyperspectral images of 3072 sugarbeet seeds of the same variety were collected, and were successively processe...