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Record W4415461881 · doi:10.1002/csc2.70177

De novo transcriptome assembly and candidate gene discovery for high seedling vigor in cicer milkvetch ( <i>Astragalus cicer</i> L.)

2025· article· en· W4415461881 on OpenAlexafffund
Hu Wang, Seth Lundell, Surendra Bhattarai, Bill Biligetu

Bibliographic record

VenueCrop Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicPlant Reproductive Biology
Canadian institutionsSaskatchewan Ministry of AgricultureUniversity of Saskatchewan
FundersMinistry of Agriculture - Saskatchewan
KeywordsSeedlingGerminationCandidate geneTranscriptomeGenePopulationGenetic variation

Abstract

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Abstract Cicer milkvetch ( Astragalus cicer L.) (CMV) is a perennial, winter hardy forage legume for grazing in the temperate regions of world. Low seed germination and low seedling vigor of this species often reduce stand establishment success, limiting producer adoption. Objectives of this study were to identify the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) associated with seedling vigor in high‐vigor (AC Veldt and PI440143) and low‐vigor populations (PI206405) in CMV. Five, 7‐day‐old seedlings per population were randomly chosen for RNA extraction. Sequencing generated a total of 319 million clean reads, with 97.3% mapped to the de novo assembled transcriptome. A total of 3,322 DEGs were identified between the high and low seedling vigor populations. Of these, a total of 269 DEGs were mapped to the UniProt database, with 30 DEGs (11.2%) aligned to species in the Fabaceae family, and 146 DEGs (54.6%) with proteins associated with seedling vigor. A total of 427 significant gene ontology (GO) terms were identified in the high versus low seedling populations, with 366 terms successfully classified into three main GO categories: molecular function, biological process, and cellular component. Among these, 286 (70.0%) GO terms were associated with seedling vigor, which were mainly related to BPs related to seed size determination, energy provision, and the transport of energy and ion. Once validated, these candidate genes could be used to select plants with high seedling vigor in CMV genetic improvement.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation 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: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.055
Threshold uncertainty score0.511

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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

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.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.258 · 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 teacher head, 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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