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The primary objectives of this study were to evaluate the efficacy of hyperspectral imaging in the early detection of herbicide stress and to assess its potential in accelerating the herbicide development process by identifying unique herbicide sites of action (SOA). Employing a novel SOA classification method, eight herbicides with unique SOAs were examined via an automated, high-throughput imaging system equipped with a conveyor-based plant transportation at Purdue University. This is one of the earliest trials to test hyperspectral imaging on a large number of herbicides, and the study aimed to explore the earliest herbicide stress detection\/classification date and accelerate the speed of herbicide development. The final models, trained on a dataset with nine treatments with 320 samples in two rounds, achieved an overall accuracy of 81.5% 1 day after treatment. With the high-precision models and rapid screening of numerous compounds in only 7 days, the study results suggest that hyperspectral technology combined with machine learning can contribute to the discovery of new herbicide MOA and help address the challenges associated with herbicide resistance. 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