Claim · model-written summary
Sprinkler irrigated seed had a 1.90% higher germination rate after hot water treatment than seed from furrow irrigated fields
- Taxon
- carrot
Daucus carotae0 - Treatment
- sprinkler irrigated seede5
- Outcome
- germination rate after hot water treatmente5
- Direction
- highere5
- Value
- 1.90%e5
- Comparator
- seed produced in furrow irrigated fieldse5
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Verbatim
e0“Bacterial blight of carrot”
e5“sprinkler irrigated seed exhibited a 1.90% higher germination rate after hot water treatment when compared to seed produced in furrow irrigated fields”
Title
Factors impacting commercial carrot seed germination rates in hot water treated seed lots
Gina A. Greenway; Jeremiah Dung Discover Agriculture 2025. doi:10.1007/s44279-025-00258-9
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Association Heat and haze during the 2021 and 2022 growing seasons did not affect post-hot water treatment germination rates
- Association Hot water treatment batch size did not affect post-hot water treatment germination rates
- Association Germination rate before hot water treatment positively affected germination rate after hot water treatment
- Association Irrigation practice had an impact on germination rate after hot water treatment
- Association Other varieties had a 3.49% lower germination rate after hot water treatment than the heirloom Nantes variety on average