Decoding canola and oat crop health and productivity under drought and heat stress using bioelectrical signals and machine learning
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abiotic stresses , such as heat and drought, often reduce crop yields by harming plant health. Plants have evolved complex signaling networks to mitigate environmental impacts, making monitoring in-situ biosignals a promising tool for assessing plant health in real time. In this study, needle-like sensors were used to measure electrical potential changes in oat and canola plants under heat and drought stress conditions. Signals were recorded over a 30-min period and segmented into time intervals of 1-, 5-, 10-, 20-, and 30-min. Machine learning algorithms, including Random Forest, K-Nearest Neighbors, and Support Vector Machines , were applied to classify stress conditions and estimate biomass based on 14 extracted bioelectrical features, such as signal amplitude and entropy. Results showed that heat stress primarily altered signal patterns, whereas drought stress affected the signal intensity, possibly due to a reduction in the flow rate of charged ions. Random Forest classifier successfully identified over 85 % of stressed crops within 30 min of signal recording. These signals also explained 58–95 % of the variation in plant aboveground and root biomass, depending on stress intensity and crop genotype. This study demonstrates the potential of using bioelectrical sensing as a rapid and efficient tool for stress detection and biomass estimation. Future research should explore the ability to use biosensors to capture genetic variability to mitigate abiotic stresses and combine this with remote sensing and other emerging precision agriculture technologies.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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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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