Claim · model-written summary
Dry seed at water activities between 0.47 and 0.38 maintained the highest rhizobial numbers.
- Taxon
- lucerne seed
Medicago sativae1 - Treatment
- seeds remained drye0
- Interactor
- rhizobiae1symbiont
- Outcome
- highest numberse0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Value
- between 0.47 and 0.38e0
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Verbatim
e0“The highest numbers were maintained when seeds remained dry with water activities of between 0.47 and 0.38”
e1“survival of rhizobia on dried commercially coated lucerne seed”
Title
Conditions Affecting Shelf-Life of Inoculated Legume Seed
Rosalind Deaker; Elizabeth Hartley; Greg Gemell Agriculture 2012. doi:10.3390/agriculture2010038
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Association The relation between rhizobial survival and water activity varied by seed species, inoculum preparation, coating ingredients, initial water activity and time.
- Intervention effect Drying coated seeds significantly reduced viable rhizobial numbers.
- Intervention effect After 11 weeks, rhizobial survival on dried commercially coated lucerne seed was less variable than on seeds not dried.
- Recommendation The authors propose reducing inoculum death during preparation and optimizing storage to improve inoculated seed quality.