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In this study, we employed an electronic nose to sample rough rice that contained three degrees of red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum Herbst) infestation for different durations\u2014light degree (LD), middle degree (MD), and heavy degree (HD)\u2014and manually investigated the insect situation at the same time. Manual insect situation investigation shows that, in all three rice treatments, the insect amounts gradually decreased after infestation. When the insect population of stored rough rice was under 13 insects per 60 g of rough rice, the natural speed of decrease of the insect population became very slow and reached the best artificial insect killing period. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) provided good performance for MD and HD insect harm duration identification, but performed poorly for LD insect harm duration identification. Both k-means clustering analysis (K-means) and fuzzy c-means analysis (FCM) effectively identified the insect harm duration for stored rough rice. The results from the back-propagation artificial neural network (BPNN) insect prevalence prediction for the three degrees of rough rice infestation demonstrated that the electronic nose could effectively predict insect prevalence in stored grain (fitting coefficients were larger than 0.89). The predictive ability was best for LD, second best for MD, and least accurate for HD. This experiment demonstrates the feasibility of electronic noses for detecting both the duration and prevalence of an insect infestation in stored grain and provides a reference for the intelligent monitoring of an insect infestation in stored grains.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s17040688","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,4,18]],"date-time":"2017-04-18T11:22:04Z","timestamp":1492514524000},"page":"688","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Recognition of the Duration and Prediction of Insect Prevalence of Stored Rough Rice Infested by the Red Flour Beetle (Tribolium castaneum Herbst) Using an Electronic Nose"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Sai","family":"Xu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"South China Agricultural University\/Engineering Research Center for Agricultural Aviation Application (ERCAAA), Guangzhou 510642, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6273-9615","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhiyan","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"South China Agricultural University\/Engineering Research Center for Agricultural Aviation Application (ERCAAA), Guangzhou 510642, China"},{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain and Oil Crops in South China, Changsha 410128, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Keliang","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"South China Agricultural University\/Engineering Research Center for Agricultural Aviation Application (ERCAAA), Guangzhou 510642, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sierra","family":"Jamir","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Stocking Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiwen","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"South China Agricultural University\/Engineering Research Center for Agricultural Aviation Application (ERCAAA), Guangzhou 510642, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,4,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Li, Y. 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