A Simple, Semi-Automated, Gravimetric Method to Simulate Drought Stress on Plants
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Drought is a major constraint of global crop production. Given that drought-induced crop losses can threaten world food security, it has been and continues to be the focus of a large body of interdisciplinary research. Most drought experiments are conducted under controlled environmental conditions, where maintaining accurate soil moisture content is critical. In this study, we developed a simple, Arduino microcontroller-based, semi-automated, lysimeter that uses the gravimetric method to adjust soil moisture content in pot experiments. This method employs an Arduino microcontroller interfaced with a balance as part of a portable lysimeter and irrigation system which can weigh and record the mass of plants growing in pots, determine water loss due to evapotranspiration, and adjust soil moisture automatically to a desired relative soil water content. The system was validated with a greenhouse pot experiment using a panel of 50 early-maturity Canadian soybean varieties. Drought was induced in the experiment by adjusting soil moisture content to 30% field capacity while maintaining control pots at 80%. Throughout the experiment, the two moisture levels were efficiently maintained using the Arduino-based lysimeter. Plant physiological responses confirmed that plants in the drought treatment were under physiological stress. This semi-automated lysimeter is low-cost, portable, and easy to handle, which allows for high-throughput screening.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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