“…The NIR has the advantages of being non‐destructive (Jiang et al, ; Pasquini, ; Rhiel, Cohen, Murhammer, & Arnold, ; Sandora et al, ), real‐time (Alves‐Rausch, Bienert, Grimm, & Bergmaier, ; Blanco & Villarroya, ; Sandnes et al, ; Sato, Zahlner, Berghofer, Lošák, & Vollmann, ) and of less cost (Sandora et al, ) than other methods, like nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) (Chen & Song, ), weighting (Smelser et at., ) and image (De La Fuente et al, ). Through the diffuse transmittance (DT) mode, the spectra of non‐uniform organism seeds can be effectively collected with less disturbing effects from other side of seed (Qin et al, , ), and this improvement shows a high performance of seed identification (Li & Li, ; Lin, Yu, Li, & Qin, ; Yu et al, ). However, due to a great variety of seed parents, the identification models need to be established independently for different parents' progeny.…”