“…Lohumi, Mo, Kang, Hong, and Cho () explored the feasibility of using Fourier transform near‐infrared spectroscopy (FT‐NIR) combined with partial least squares‐discriminant analysis (PLS‐DA) to identify the viability of watermelon seeds. Moreover, FT‐NIR technology combined with PLS‐DA model was applied for the viability detection of crop seeds such as corn (Ambrose, Lohumi, Lee, & Cho, ) and soybean (Kusumaningrum et al, ), and the satisfactory results were achieved. In addition, HSI technology coupled with suitable model was successfully applied in the identification of viable and nonviable muskmelon seeds (Kandpal, Lohumi, Kim, Kang, & Cho, ), wheat (Zhang et al, ), and other seeds.…”