GEFormer:A genotype-environment interactionbased genomic prediction method that integrates the gating multilayer perceptron and linear attention mechanisms  

作　　者：Zhou Yao Mengting Yao Chuang Wang Ke Li Junhao Guo Yingjie Xiao Jianbing Yan Jianxiao Liu 

机构地区：[1]National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement,Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan 430070,China [2]Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics,Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan 430070,China [3]College of Informatics,Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan 430070,China [4]Hubei Hongshan Laboratory,Wuhan 430070,China

出　　处：《Molecular Plant》2025年第3期527-549,共23页分子植物(英文版)

基　　金：supported by the Biological Breeding-National Science and Technology Major Project(2023ZD04076);the Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation(2023AFB832),the Natural Science Foundation of Guizhou Province Science and Technology Agency(ZK[2025]096);the Major Project of Hubei Hongshan Laboratory(2022HSZD031);the Yingzi Tech&Huazhong Agricultural University Intelligent Research Institute of Food Health(IRIFH202209).

摘　　要：The integration of genotypic and environmental data can enhance genomic prediction accuracy for crop field traits.Existing genomic prediction methods fail to consider environmental factors and the real growth environments of crops,resulting in low genomic prediction accuracy.In this work,we developed GEFormer,a genotype-environment interaction genomic prediction method that integrates gating multilayer perceptron(gMLP)and linear attention mechanisms.First,GEFormer uses gMLP to extract local and global features among SNPs.Then,Omni-dimensional Dynamic Convolution is used to extract the dynamic and comprehensive features of multiple environmental factors within each day,taking into consideration the real growth pattern of crops.A linear attention mechanism is used to capture the temporal features of environmental changes.Finally,GEFormer uses a gating mechanism to effectively fuse the genomic and environmental features.We examined the accuracy of GEFormer for predicting important agronomic traits of maize,rice,and wheat under three experimental scenarios:untested genotypes in tested environments,tested genotypes in untested environments,and untested genotypes in untested environments.The results showed that GEFormer outperforms six cutting-edge statistical learning methods and four machine learning methods,especially with great advantages under the scenario of untested genotypes in untested environments.In addition,we used GEFormer for three realworld breeding applications:phenotype prediction in unknown environments,hybrid phenotype prediction using an inbred population,and cross-population phenotype prediction.The results showed that GEFormer had better prediction performance in actual breeding scenarios and could be used to assist in crop breeding.

关 键 词：genomic prediction crop growth environment genotype-environment interactions gated MLP linear attention mechanism 

分 类 号：S126[农业科学—农业基础科学] S511