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Record W4414114803 · doi:10.1016/j.jgeb.2025.100569

Decoding the cannabis tissue culture puzzle: Machine learning analysis of cannabis in vitro morpho-physiological disorders expands the potential for precision micropropagation

2025· article· en· W4414114803 on OpenAlexaff
Marco Pepe, Mohsen Hesami, Kristian Adamek, Andrew Maxwell Phineas Jones

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicPlant tissue culture and regeneration
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMicropropagationCannabisCannabis sativaPlant tissue cultureTissue cultureSynthetic cannabinoids

Abstract

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Cannabis sativa L. (cannabis) has recently re-emerged as an economically important crop, fueling research focused on enhancing production practices to meet market demands. The developing cannabis industry can be improved by overcoming certain production hurdles using micropropagation to maintain and multiply pathogen-free plants in confined spaces at high volumes. However, developing efficient micropropagation systems for cannabis have been hampered by the prevalence of various morpho-physiological disorders, resulting in low multiplication rates, culture decline, and overall low efficiency rates. While progress in cannabis micropropagation has been made, nutrient imbalances and various disorders are still common. Successful micropropagation is species specific and dependent on a variety of interconnected factors related to abiotic conditions and nutrient availability, which represent challenges in the refinement and execution of effective methods. Micropropagation media represent the exclusive sources of macro- and micro-nutrients for cultured plant tissues, inadequacies of which can result in the emergence of morpho-physiological symptoms. This work represents the first in-depth analysis of multiple morpho-physiological disorders in micropropagated cannabis arising from media nutrient content. Additionally, we present machine learning as an effective tool for assessing nutrient-associated symptoms in cultured cannabis and identifying which components are responsible. Results will help with troubleshooting cannabis micropropagation systems to prevent or correct undesirable outcomes, while introducing new methods to assess in vitro cannabis disorders.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.009

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

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 head0.003
GPT teacher head0.219
Teacher spread0.216 · 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 designSimulation or modeling
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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