Claim · model-written summary
Seed moisture content increased with relative humidity.
- Taxon
- Garcinia kola, Terminalia superba, Terminalia ivorensis, Mansonia altissima, Entandrophragma angolense and Khaya anthotheca
Khaya anthotheca
Garcinia kolaTerminalia ivorensisEntandrophragma angolense
Terminalia superba
Mansonia altissimae1 - Treatment
- relative humiditye0
- Outcome
- seed moisture contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The isotherms showed that seed moisture content increased with increasing relative humidity”
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.
- Observation G. kola seeds lost water at every relative humidity tested.
- Observation Other species seeds either lost or absorbed water depending on ambient relative humidity.