Claim · model-written summary
Drying coated seeds significantly reduced viable rhizobial numbers.
- Taxon
- Legume Seedt0
- Treatment
- drying seeds after coatinge0
- Interactor
- rhizobiae0symbiont
- Outcome
- viable numbers of rhizobiae0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“drying seeds after coating significantly reduced viable numbers of rhizobia”
t0“Legume Seed”
Title
Conditions Affecting Shelf-Life of Inoculated Legume Seed
Rosalind Deaker; Elizabeth Hartley; Greg Gemell Agriculture 2012. doi:10.3390/agriculture2010038
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Association The relation between rhizobial survival and water activity varied by seed species, inoculum preparation, coating ingredients, initial water activity and time.
- Intervention effect After 11 weeks, rhizobial survival on dried commercially coated lucerne seed was less variable than on seeds not dried.
- Observation Dry seed at water activities between 0.47 and 0.38 maintained the highest rhizobial numbers.
- Recommendation The authors propose reducing inoculum death during preparation and optimizing storage to improve inoculated seed quality.