UAV-based Multispectral Imaging for High-throughput Phenotyping of Dry Bean Breeding Trials
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the third largest pulse crop grown in Canada. Due to climate change and extreme weather, dry bean varieties are subjected to abiotic and biotic stresses, which affect yield stability and seed quality. Development of resilient cultivars is the most effective strategy to ensure productivity and environmental sustainability of dry bean crop. In this project, key phenotypic traits will be extracted for genetic improvement and development of elite cultivars with early maturity and high yield. Traditional phenotyping approaches are rigorous, time-consuming, and subject to human errors. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based high-throughput phenotyping (HTP) has been changing the way of doing large-scale phenotyping in plant breeding. The use of aerial imaging systems offers a potential solution to provide an intensive tool for complex traits assessment to evaluate a large number of dry bean genotypes. By this, HTP technique will be optimized to improve selection efficiency of agronomic, physiological and disease resistance traits. In this study, two dry bean field trials, Advanced Yield Trial (AYT) consisting of F7 generation [yellow bean (5 entries), Pinto bean (20 entries)], and Performance Yield Trial (PeYT) of F8-F10 generation (49 entries) were grown in a randomized-block design at the Fairfield Research Farm at AAFC Lethbridge, AB. Both field trials were imaged at the specific developmental stages (vegetative, flowering, maturity) using UAV mounted RGB and multispectral sensors. The acquired imagery have been processed to accurately overlay images from different dates (time-series data comparison). We analyzed three-time point RGB and multispectral images to identify valuable traits such as canopy height, crop lodging, physiological maturity and accumulation of crop biomass over time. With the preliminary results, we found the utilization of UAV-based HTP has significant advantage in non-destructive measurements of canopy-level functional traits. Assessment of these traits at same climatic region can be used to identify crop characteristics that are important for screening of high-quality dry bean experimental lines and cultivars in field conditions. In the long term, it will provide a consistent and reliable information system to rapidly screen thousands of breeding populations individually that need to be genotyped for morphological and physiological functional traits.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| 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 | 0.000 |
| 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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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