Abstract:Carotenoid content in wheat grain is the key index to measure the nutritional value and breeding quality of wheat. In order to realize the rapid and nondestructive detection of carotenoid content in wheat grain, a near-infrared spectrum rapid acquisition device for wheat grain was designed, which can realize the equal sample size of the sample to be measured, and quickly collect near-infrared spectrum data for many times, so as to improve the spectral acquisition efficiency. Taking 180 wheat grains as the research object, the near-infrared spectral data in the range of 900~1700nm were obtained. Savitzky-Golay (SG), standard normal variate transformation (SNV), multiplicative scatter correction (MSC), trend correction (TC), SG+TC, SG+MSC, SG+SNV, Savitzky-Golay+first derivative (SG+1D), Savitzky-Golay+second derivative (SG+2D), Savitzky-Golay+third derivative (SG+3D) ten pretreatment methods, four feature selection algorithms, relief algorithm (Relief), genetic algorithm (GA), variance threshold (VT) and successive projections algorithm (SPA), were used to establish three mathematical models of partial least squares regression (PLSR), support vector regression (SVR) and adaptive boosting regression (ABR) to predict carotenoid content in wheat seeds. The results showed that the prediction effect of ABR model based on SNV preprocessing, relief feature selection algorithm and CSO-ACF improved strategy was the best. The determination coefficient R2C of correction set was 0.90, the root mean square error (RMSEC) was 0.29μg/g, the determination coefficient R2P of prediction set was 0.90, the root mean square error (RMSEP) was 0.32μg/g, and the RPD was 3.16. Therefore, the device combined with the model algorithm can achieve rapid and nondestructive prediction of carotenoid content in wheat.