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SUBMITTER: Christodoulou MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6188776 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Christodoulou Maria D MD Battey Nicholas Hugh NH Culham Alastair A
PloS one 20181015 10
Morphological classification of living things has challenged science for several centuries and has led to a wide range of objective morphometric approaches in data gathering and analysis. In this paper we explore those methods using apple cultivars, a model biological system in which discrete groups are pre-defined but in which there is a high level of overall morphological similarity. The effectiveness of morphometric techniques in discovering the groups is evaluated using statistical learning ...[more]