Claim · model-written summary
Mechanically threshed onion seeds showed greater variability in quality.
- Taxon
- Onion
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- mechanically threshed seedse0
- Outcome
- variabilitye1
- Direction
- greatere1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
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Verbatim
t0“Mechanical Threshing of Onion Seeds”
e0“The mechanically threshed seeds show lower values for all the considered quality parameters compared to those found in the control samples”
e1“In the same way, there is also greater variability”
Title
Validity of the Mechanical Threshing of Onion Seeds from the Point of View of Seed Quality
Ester Foppa Pedretti; Daniele Duca; Giuseppe Toscano; et al. Agriculture 2017. doi:10.3390/agriculture7120102
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Mechanically threshed onion seeds showed lower values for all considered quality parameters than manually threshed control samples.
- Recommendation The dedicated mechanical system reduces onion seed processing time.
- Recommendation The dedicated mechanical system maintains onion seed quality within the limits of merchantability.
- Recommendation Higher onion seed quality standards require further analysis.