Claim · model-written summary
Seed advancement increased mean embryo length by only 4%.
- Taxon
- Carrots
Daucus carotat0 - Treatment
- seed advancemente0
- Outcome
- Mean embryo lengthe0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 4%e0
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Verbatim
e0“Mean embryo length was increased by only 4% after seed advancement”
t0“Carrots”
Title
T. W. Hegarty Journal of Horticultural Science 1973. doi:10.1080/00221589.1973.11514505
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Nineteen of fifty Chantenay carrot seed lots had significantly reduced germination at 10 °C versus 20 °C.
- Intervention effect Seed advancement increased germination at 10 °C in some seed lots.
- Association The embryo length increase was not associated with seed lot temperature related germination.
- Recommendation Seed advancement was not generally applicable for reducing germination temperature sensitivity.