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Background <p>Sunflowers (<i>Helianthus annuus</i> L.), a vital oil crop, are facing a severe challenge from broomrape (<i>Orobanche cumana</i>), a parasitic plant that seriously jeopardizes the growth and development of sunflowers, limits global production and leads to substantial economic losses, which urges the development of resistant sunflower varieties.</p> Results <p>This study aims to identify resistance genes from a comprehensive transcriptomic profile of 103 sunflower varieties based on gene expression data and then constructs predictive models with the key resistant genes. The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression and random forest feature importance ranking method were used to identify resistance genes. These genes were considered as biomarkers in constructing machine learning models with Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbours (KNN), Logistic Regression (LR), and Gaussian Naive Bayes (GaussianNB). The SVM model constructed with the 24 key genes selected by the LASSO method demonstrated high classification accuracy (0.9514) and a robust AUC value (0.9865), effectively distinguishing between resistant and susceptible varieties based on gene expression data. Furthermore, we discovered a correlation between key genes and differential metabolites, particularly jasmonic acid (JA).</p> Conclusion <p>Our study highlights a novel perspective on screening sunflower varieties for broomrape resistance, which is anticipated to guide future biological research and breeding strategies.</p>

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Machine Learning-Based identification of resistance genes associated with sunflower broomrape

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    2025年5月16日

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  • Yingxue Che,
  • Congzi Zhang,
  • Jixiang Xing,
  • Qilemuge Xi,
  • Ying Shao,
  • Lingmin Zhao,
  • Shuchun Guo,
  • Yongchun Zuo

摘要

Background

Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus L.), a vital oil crop, are facing a severe challenge from broomrape (Orobanche cumana), a parasitic plant that seriously jeopardizes the growth and development of sunflowers, limits global production and leads to substantial economic losses, which urges the development of resistant sunflower varieties.

Results

This study aims to identify resistance genes from a comprehensive transcriptomic profile of 103 sunflower varieties based on gene expression data and then constructs predictive models with the key resistant genes. The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression and random forest feature importance ranking method were used to identify resistance genes. These genes were considered as biomarkers in constructing machine learning models with Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbours (KNN), Logistic Regression (LR), and Gaussian Naive Bayes (GaussianNB). The SVM model constructed with the 24 key genes selected by the LASSO method demonstrated high classification accuracy (0.9514) and a robust AUC value (0.9865), effectively distinguishing between resistant and susceptible varieties based on gene expression data. Furthermore, we discovered a correlation between key genes and differential metabolites, particularly jasmonic acid (JA).

Conclusion

Our study highlights a novel perspective on screening sunflower varieties for broomrape resistance, which is anticipated to guide future biological research and breeding strategies.