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Record W4244866912 · doi:10.1002/9781405181099.k0205

Flax

2008· other· en· W4244866912 on OpenAlexaff
Allan Green, Surinder Singh, Yurong Chen, J. C. P. Dribnenki

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicPlant tissue culture and regeneration
Canadian institutionsAgropur cooperative
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLinumBiologyBiotechnologyPolyunsaturated fatty acidCropPlant disease resistanceSunflowerAgronomyBotanyFatty acidGeneGenetics

Abstract

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Abstract Flax ( Linum usitatissimum ) is an ancient crop grown for either its linen fiber (fiber flax) or its highly polyunsaturated seed oil (linseed). In recent times, the whole seed and the extracted oils have also become highly valued nutritional supplements due to their rich content of lignans and ω‐3 fatty acids. Compared to other more major crops, flax is relatively little studied from the genetic, cytogenetic, and molecular genetic perspectives. Nonetheless, significant achievements in improving yield, agronomics, and disease resistance were made during the 1900s using conventional plant breeding and selection techniques. The natural gene pool for flax is limited to L. usitatissimum and its respective annual and biennial progenitors, L. angustifolium and L. bienne , which significantly limits the opportunity for further genetic improvement. Consequently, mutation breeding techniques were successfully applied in the 1980s to alter the fatty acid composition of the seed and develop a new low‐linolenic form (Linola) that has been used as an alternative to sunflower and safflower oils in polyunsaturated margarine manufacture. More recently, flax has proven to be highly amenable to genetic transformation using Agrobacterium‐mediated approaches. This capability is likely to provide most of the future achievements in flax improvement in the areas of yield, abiotic stress tolerance, disease resistance, herbicide tolerance, insect tolerance, and diversification of product quality.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.140
Threshold uncertainty score0.000

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1400.075

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.220
Teacher spread0.212 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations21
Published2008
Admission routes1
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