Claim · model-written summary
Strict determination of the ripening stage is necessary before maize germination experiments.
- Outcome
- Strict determination of the ripening stagee7
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Verbatim
t0“Ripening Stages of the Maize-seed”
e7“Strict determination of the ripening stage is therefore necessary”
Title
On the Relation between the Ripening Stages of the Maize-seed and Its Germination
Takuji Koshimizu Shokubutsugaku Zasshi 1936. doi:10.15281/jplantres1887.50.504
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Seeds on the same maize ear differ considerably in degree of ripeness.
- Association Premature germination of maize seed depends on ripening stage and on post-gathering seed treatment.
- Intervention effect Maize seeds laid a week after gathering germinate almost immediately, faster than freshly collected seeds.
- Intervention effect In freshly collected maize seeds, the most ripened seeds germinate faster than unripened ones.
- Intervention effect In maize seeds stored a week in the laboratory, the ripeness pattern of germination is nearly reversed.
- Observation Milk-stage maize seeds with the highest water content show the least sign of germination for a while.
- Observation Milk-stage maize seeds whose water content is reduced to a constant value about a week after picking show abrupt signs of germination.
- Intervention effect Maize embryos washed of endosperm juice grow much faster than embryos with the juice not washed or added.
- Mechanism Endosperm juice of milk-stage maize seeds is presumed to contain a germination-prohibiting substance that changes during desiccation.