The global community decided in 2015 to improve people's lives by 2030 by setting 17
global goals for sustainable development. The second goal of this community was to end …

Efficient seed germination and establishment are important traits for field and glasshouse
crops. Large‐scale germination experiments are laborious and prone to observer errors …

BACKGROUND Rice is an important food crop plant in the world and is also a model plant
for genetics and breeding research. The germination rate is an important indicator that …

Background Assessment of seed germination is an essential task for seed researchers to
measure the quality and performance of seeds. Usually, seed assessments are done …

Witchweeds (Striga spp.) and broomrapes (Orobanchaceae and Phelipanche spp.) are root
parasitic plants that infest many crops in warm and temperate zones, causing enormous …

Germination test is an irreplaceable step in seed selection and breeding. The current
traditional germination test method must rely on experienced professional technicians to …

Seed germination vigor is one of the important indexes reflecting the quality of seeds, and
the level of its germination vigor directly affects the crop yield. The traditional manual …

Rice is a staple crop for Indonesian citizens. The need for rice increases along with
population growth, and farmers need quality rice seeds. This study compares machine …

Featured Application This study introduces a machine learning-based system to automate
the classification of pole sitao (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) seeds into normal, abnormal …

Rice Seed varietal classification and germination evaluation system is developed to identify
the variety and evaluate the germination of rice seeds using Digital Image processing …