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Physical purity testing is a fundamental part of seed quality assessment, ensuring that seed lots meet established purity standards before planting or marketing. ...
Researchers are increasingly interested in the fatty acid composition of crops and microalgae to improve yield, oil quality, and stress resistance. As the demand for bio-based solutions rises, precise measurement of fatty acids becomes a cornerstone of innovation in food security, renewable energy, and sustainable agriculture. ...
This can also act as a barrier to rooting.2. Check seed quality Thoroughly check the quality of seed when it arrives on-farm and try and order it well ahead of planting time to give you more time to check the contents properly when it arrives.It’s a good idea to work closely with a trusted seed supplier to reduce ...
The malting process is the first stage of beer production. It transforms the barley into malt through a germination process that needs to be well controlled. The quality of the barley is key to finally obtaining a premium end product, thus the malting quality (MQ) of barley needs to be assessed by a reliable technique. However, parameters currently used for assessing malting quality of barley are ...
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Chetna Organic Agriculture Producer Company was established with the primary aim of enhancing the livelihood of tribal smallholder farmers dependent on rain-fed agriculture through making their farming systems more profitable and sustainable. Chetna promotes organic cotton farming and alongside undertakes participative research on the best package of practice depending on the agro-climatic ...
Today I want to talk to you about the benefits of the plug seedlings of the nursery seeding planter. Everyone knows that the plug planter is relatively common in our lives. ...
Boron deficiency in calcareous soil reduces rice yield and impairs grain quality. International Rice Research Notes 29, 58-60. Bingham FT. 1982. ...
Most have ended badly, leaving a legacy of low quality seed, broken supply chains, rusted seed processors, and disappointed farmers. ...
Consider just a few factors that must fall into place to ensure people have enough good food: affordable good quality seeds with high nutritional value; enough income for farmers to buy those seeds and other inputs needed to keep productivity high; and knowledge of tools and practices to help keep crops from damage and to sell them at a fair ...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial and antioxidant potential of orange peel and seed extracts as additives to preserve quality of fresh–cut orange. ...
Relatively high seed prices and low canola (Brassica napus L.) grain prices created a controversy over using farm-saved seed from hybrids. ...
This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of applying chlormequat chloride (CCC) (2-chloroethyl-trimethyl-ammonium chloride) in combination with five PGRs {naphthylacetic acid [1-naphthylacetic acid], sodium nitrophenolate, gibberellic acid 3 [2,4a,7-trihydroxy-1-methyl-8-methylenegibb-3-ene-1,10-carboxylic acid-1, 4a-lactone], triacontanol [1-triacontanol], and brassinolide ...
Merr.] yield formation in field environments can be either source-limited or sink-limited, depending on the assimilatory capacity of the mother plant relative to the assimilate demands of the developing seeds. Our objective was to evaluate yield and seed quality relationships under source-limited and sink-limited conditions during the ...
Since most soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] seed is processed into meal and oil, there is a growing concern about environmental effects on soybean seed composition. The aim of this work was to investigate how water deficit affects the well-known relationship of soybean seed oil and protein concentrations with temperature and, alternatively, with ...
Plant dry matter (DM), N concentration, N accumulation, and grain N were also increased with soybean seed inoculation; however, seed quality was not affected. Fertilizer N application increased plant DM but did not increase grain yield, with or without inoculation. Furthermore, N fertilizer did not increase plant N or improve ...
Andrus & W.D. Moore, is a major barrier to seed yield and quality in lentil. Pathogenicity testing has revealed two races, Ct1 and Ct0, of C. truncatum in western Canada. ...
Seed size, a key quality determinant in the marketing of the cool-season food legume chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), can be reduced under terminal drought. Sucrose synthase and invertase, important enzymes in sugar metabolism, play an important role in seed filling. This study aimed to determine whether these enzymes in the developing cotyledons ...
Introgressing genes from unadapted breeding lines into cultivars may reduce seed yield or quality of the resulting lines. This study's objectives were to determine if (i) an RKI resistance quantitative trait locus (QTL) is linked to the T-locus conditioning pubescence color in G93-9009, and (ii) a yield or seed quality loss is ...
Vestergr.] and weak stem strength in field pea (Pisum sativum L.) are major restrictions to yield, seed quality, and ease of harvest. Previous studies have established that additive genetic variance is present for both traits, and that stem strength is strongly associated with a field test of compressed stem thickness at the base of the stem. ...