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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
PLS analysis: identification of the variables contributing the most to the calibration models based on the values of the VIP indices. Dark red vertical bars represent the predictors identified as significantly contributing to the model built on: (A) MIR; and (B) NIR spectra.