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Flowering time is an important target for breeders in developing new varieties adapted to changing conditions. In this work, a new approach is proposed in which the SNP markers influencing time to flowering in mung bean are selected as important features in a random forest model. The genotypic and weather data are encoded in artificial image objects, and a model for flowering time prediction is constructed as a convolutional neural network. The model uses weather data for only a limited time period of 5 days before and 20 days after planting and is capable of predicting the time to flowering with high accuracy. The most important factors for model solution were identified using saliency maps and a Score-CAM method. Our approach can help breeding programs harness genotypic and phenotypic diversity to more effectively produce varieties with a desired flowering time.
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State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China.
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Department of Entomology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA. Electronic address:
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State Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (LoFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China.
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