Claim · model-written summary
The relation between rhizobial survival and water activity varied by seed species, inoculum preparation, coating ingredients, initial water activity and time.
- Taxon
- Legume Seedt0
- Treatment
- inoculum preparation, coating ingredients, initial water activity and timee0
- Interactor
- rhizobiae1symbiont
- Outcome
- survivale0
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Verbatim
e0“The relationship between survival and water activity varied according to seed species, inoculum preparation, coating ingredients, initial water activity and time”
e1“survival of rhizobia on dried commercially coated lucerne seed”
t0“Legume 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)
- 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.
- Observation Dry seed at water activities between 0.47 and 0.38 maintained the highest rhizobial numbers.
- Recommendation The authors propose reducing inoculum death during preparation and optimizing storage to improve inoculated seed quality.