In this paper we solve the problem of classifying chestnut plants according to their place of origin; we compare the results obtained by a multi-layer perceptron with C4.5 decision tree and random forest. We will determine which features are meaningful for the classification, the achievable classification accuracy of these three classifiers families with the available features and how much the ...

In this paper we solve the problem of classifying chestnut plants according to their place of origin. We compare the results obtained by state of the art classifiers, among which, MLP, RBF, SVM, C4.5 decision tree and random forest. We determine which features are meaningful for the classification, the achievable classification accuracy of these classifiers families with the available features ...

Chloroplast (cp) DNA genomes are traditional workhorses for studying the evolution of species and reconstructing phylogenetic relationships in plants. Species genus Castanea (chestnuts chinquapins) valued as a source nuts timber wherever they grow, chestnut hybrids common. We compared cp C. mollissima, seguinii, henryi, pumila. These ranged from 160,805 bp to 161,010 length, comprising pair inv...

It is well known that direct effects of seed predators or dispersers can have strong effects on seedling establishment. However, we have limited knowledge about the indirect species interactions between seeds of different species that are mediated by shared seed predators and/or dispersers and their consequences for plant demography and diversity. Because scatter-hoarding rodents as seed disper...

American chestnut was eliminated as a canopy tree from the Appalachian region of North America with the introduction of chestnut blight in the early 1900s. Breeding programs initiated in the 1980s have produced seedling lines that display the pure American morphology with potential resistance to chestnut blight. More work is required to assess their field performance in field sites representati...