Claim · model-written summary
Other species seeds either lost or absorbed water depending on ambient relative humidity.
- Taxon
- Garcinia kola, Terminalia superba, Terminalia ivorensis, Mansonia altissima, Entandrophragma angolense and Khaya anthotheca
Khaya anthotheca
Garcinia kolaTerminalia ivorensisEntandrophragma angolenseTerminalia superba
Mansonia altissimae1 - Outcome
- lost water (desorption) to the relative humidity chambers, or absorbed water from the chamberse0
- Qualifier
- depending on the relative humidity of the environmente0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.



Verbatim
e0“Seeds of the other species either lost water (desorption) to the relative humidity chambers, or absorbed water from the chambers depending on the relative humidity of the environment they were placed”
e1“Garcinia kola, Terminalia superba, Terminalia ivorensis, Mansonia altissima, Entandrophragma angolense and Khaya anthotheca”
Title
Water Sorption Isotherm Characteristics of Seeds of Six Indigenous Forest Tree Species in Ghana
NS Olympio; JM Asomaning; M Sacande West African Journal of Applied Ecology 2011. doi:10.4314/wajae.v18i1.70312
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation E. angolense seeds reached equilibrium in 13 days.
- Observation G. kola seeds reached equilibrium in 91 days.
- Observation T. superba seeds showed a sigmoidal moisture-content versus humidity relationship.
- Observation T. ivorensis seeds showed a sigmoidal moisture-content versus humidity relationship.
- Observation M. altissima seeds showed a sigmoidal moisture-content versus humidity relationship.
- Observation E. angolense seeds showed a sigmoidal moisture-content versus humidity relationship.
- Observation K. anthotheca seeds showed a sigmoidal moisture-content versus humidity relationship.
- Observation G. kola seeds showed a reversed sigmoid isotherm, like orthodox species rather than a monotonic curve.
- Association Seed moisture content increased with relative humidity.
- Observation G. kola seeds lost water at every relative humidity tested.