Claim · model-written summary
Sterilization did not affect seed germinability.
- Taxon
- pumpkine0
- Treatment
- immersion in 0.6% sodium hypochlorite for 20 mine0
- Outcome
- germinabilitye0
- Direction
- without affectinge0
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Verbatim
e0“Surface sterilization by immersion in 0.6% sodium hypochlorite for 20 min eradicated V. dahliae from infected pumpkin seeds without affecting germinability.”
Title
Verticillium dahliae(Kleb.) Infecting Pumpkin Seed
Sephra N. Rampersad Journal of Phytopathology 2009. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0434.2009.01621.x
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Mean seed infection incidence was 21.0%.
- Observation Seed isolates were pathogenic to Jamaican squash pumpkin.
- Intervention effect Sodium hypochlorite sterilization eradicated V. dahliae from infected seeds.
- Observation The fungus was present in the seed coat but absent from embryo and cotyledons.
- Observation A quarter of 6-week-old plants from untreated seed were infected.
- Association V. dahliae seed infection did not affect germination or normal seedling production.
- Observation V. dahliae in pumpkin seed was external and transmissible to plants.