Evaluation of Forage Quality in a Pea Breeding Program Using a Hyperspectral Sensing System

Abstract

Forage quality evaluation is essential in breeding and selecting forage crops to improve livestock health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A non-destructive and high-throughput process to assess forage quality can advance cultivar development research and commercial feed analysis. The overall objective of this study was to estimate 12 biomass quality traits of field peas in the 2019 and 2020 field seasons using in-field hyperspectral spectroscopy (350-2500 nm) at the leaf level. Six machine-learning models were utilized to develop the relationships between each quality trait and four feature extraction datasets (first derivative reflectance data, vegetation indices, normalized difference spectral indices, and ratio spectral indices) of leaf reflectance spectra from the hyperspectral data. The high and consistent performance of all quality traits was produced from only ridge regression, elastic net regression, and random forest regression models in first derivative reflectance and vegetation indices datasets. In addition, higher prediction performance (0.81 <R² < 0. 93; 0.05 < root mean square error (%) < 1.80; 0.03 < mean absolute error (%) < 1.32) was found in the random forest model using normalized difference spectral indices and ratio spectral indices datasets after utilizing a feature selection technique (leave one feature out). The results suggest that the proposed evaluation approach of spectroscopy may be applied to predict field pea quality traits in a timely fashion to assist breeders and farmers in their decision-making.

Plant phenotyping relevance

葉レベルのハイパースペクトル分光と機械学習により、エンドウの12 biomass quality traitsを非破壊・高スループットに推定する評価手法を開発・検証しており、植物形質取得が研究の中心である。

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