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Machine Learning Offers Insights into the Impact of In Vitro Drought Stress on Strawberry Cultivars

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  • Özhan Şimşek

    (Horticulture Department, Agriculture Faculty, Erciyes University, Kayseri 38030, Türkiye)

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This study aimed to assess the susceptibility of three strawberry cultivars (“Festival”, “Fortuna”, and “Rubygem”) to drought stress induced by varying polyethylene glycol (PEG) concentrations in the culture medium. Plantlets were cultivated on a solid medium supplemented with 1 mg/L BAP, and PEG concentrations (0, 2, 4, and 6 mg/L) were introduced to simulate drought stress. Morphological changes were observed, and morphometric analysis was conducted. Additionally, artificial neural network (ANN) analysis and machine learning approaches were integrated into this study. The results showed significant effects of PEG concentrations on plant height and multiplication coefficients, highlighting genotype-specific responses. This study employed various machine learning models, with random forest consistently demonstrating superior performance. Our findings revealed the random forest model outperformed others with a remarkable global diagnostic accuracy of 91.164%, indicating its superior capability in detecting and predicting water stress effects in strawberries. Specifically, the RF model excelled in predicting root length and the number of roots for “Festival” and “Fortuna” cultivars, demonstrating its reliability across different genetic backgrounds. Meanwhile, for the “Rubygem” cultivar, the multi-layer perceptron (MLP) and Gaussian process (GP) models showed particular strengths in predicting proliferation and plant height, respectively. These findings highlight the potential of ML models, particularly RF, to enhance agricultural breeding and cultivation strategies through accurate phenotypic predictions, suggesting a promising direction for future research to improve these predictions further. This research contributes to understanding strawberry responses to drought stress and emphasizes the potential of machine learning in predicting plant characteristics.

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  • Özhan Şimşek, 2024. "Machine Learning Offers Insights into the Impact of In Vitro Drought Stress on Strawberry Cultivars," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 14(2), pages 1-17, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jagris:v:14:y:2024:i:2:p:294-:d:1337590
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