Applying an artificial neural network approach for drought tolerance screening among Iranian wheat landraces and cultivars grown under well-watered and rain-fed conditions

In the current study, an α-lattice design was used to investigate 320 Iranian bread wheat cultivars and landraces under non-stressed and rain-fed conditions, according to phenological, morphological and physiological parameters. An artificial neural network (ANN) was trained to evaluate the relative importance of different drought tolerance indices (DTIs) using a multilayer perceptron model. Our findings suggest that the Iranian wheat germplasm...