Seed quality drives grain yield in Ethiopian and Senegalese sorghum: Insights from machine learning

Ezekiel Ahn; Louis K. Prom; Jae Hee Jang; Insuck Baek; Adama R. Tukuli; Seunghyun Lim; Seok Min Hong; Moon S. Kim; Lyndel W. Meinhardt; Sunchung Park; Clint Magill

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0329366

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Seed quality drives grain yield in Ethiopian and Senegalese sorghum: Insights from machine learning

Ezekiel Ahn ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: ezekiel.ahn@usda.gov; c-magill@tamu.edu

¶☯ These authors contributed equally.

Affiliation Sustainable Perennial Crops Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, United States of America Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4447-4104

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Louis K. Prom ,

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

¶☯ These authors contributed equally.

Affiliation Insect Control and Cotton Disease Research, Agricultural Research Service, Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, United States of America Department of Agriculture, College Station, Texas, United States of America
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Jae Hee Jang,

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sustainable Perennial Crops Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, United States of America Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
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Insuck Baek,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, United States of America Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
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Adama R. Tukuli,

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Insect Control and Cotton Disease Research, Agricultural Research Service, Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, United States of America Department of Agriculture, College Station, Texas, United States of America
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Seunghyun Lim,

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Sustainable Perennial Crops Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, United States of America Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
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Seok Min Hong,

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, United States of America Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Civil Urban Earth and Environmental Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, UNIST-gil 50, Ulsan, Republic of Korea

https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8066-0284

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Moon S. Kim,

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, United States of America Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
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Lyndel W. Meinhardt,

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Sustainable Perennial Crops Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, United States of America Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
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Sunchung Park,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sustainable Perennial Crops Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, United States of America Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
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Clint Magill

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision

* E-mail: ezekiel.ahn@usda.gov; c-magill@tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America
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Seed quality drives grain yield in Ethiopian and Senegalese sorghum: Insights from machine learning

Ezekiel Ahn,
Louis K. Prom,
Jae Hee Jang,
Insuck Baek,
Adama R. Tukuli,
Seunghyun Lim,
Seok Min Hong,
Moon S. Kim,
Lyndel W. Meinhardt,
Sunchung Park

Published: August 14, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0329366

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