Viability of Seeds
From prehistoric times man has had a pecial s relationship with seed plants - as a source of food, materials for tools, buildings, clothing and pharmaceuticals, and for ornamenting his surroundings for his own delight (probably in that chronological order
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Mutant phenotypes produced from aged seeds (see Chapter 9, pp. 2.61- 3). Peas (Pisum
salitlllm) : lA, Yellowish-edges; 18, Maculala; Ie, Xantha. Broad beans ( Vida jabal:
211., Greenish-yellow; 2B, Maculata; lC, Xamha; 3" Chlorina. Barley (Hordeum vulgare) : 3B, Albino; 3C, Striata. All photographs (except I B and 28) indude examples of the normal phenotypes for comparison.
Viability of Seeds
Edited by
E. H . Roberts Pro/essor of Crop Production. Department 0/ Agriculture, University of Reading
C HAPMAN AND HALL LTD II NEW FETTER LANE · LONDON EC4
First published 1972 Reprinted 1974 ISBN-I3: 978-94-009-5687-2 001: 10.1007/978-94-009-5685-8
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Contents
Contributors Preface
page vii VlIl
CHAPTER I
Introduction E. H. Roberts
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CHAPTER 2
Storage environment and the comrol of viability E. H. Roberts 3 Microftora and seed deterioration C. M. Christensen
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CHAPTER
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CHAPTER 4
Effects of mechanical injuries on viability R. P. Moore
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CHAP T ER 5
Effects of environment before harvesting on viability R. 8. Austin
114
CHAPTER 6
Effects of environment after sowing on viability Bruce M. Pollock
150
CHAPTER 7
The measurement of viability D. B. MacKay CHAPTER
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Vigour W. Heydecker
20I} is used for the half·viability period and p for the mean viability period. As discussed earlier. under most circumstances the distribution of the viability periods amongst the individual seeds of a population is normal and therefore symmetrical, in which case Pf>I} and p are identical. There are some advantages, however, in retaining the distinction and being d ear as to which measure of viability is' adopted for particular circumstances.
Storage Environment and the Control of Viability
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[Q apply [Q rice which was investigated over the range 12-14.5 per cent moisture content and 27-47°C, although the values of the constants were different from wheat. Further experiments on barley (H ordeum distichon), broad beans (Vicia/aba ), and peas (Pisum sativum) over [he ranges 25-45°C and 12-18 per cent moisture content showed that equation (2.5) provided an excellent fit in all cases, although the constants are slightly different for the three species (Roberts and Abdalla, 1968). An equation based on the relationship expressed by equation (2-4) was also tested. It will be seen that this relationship could be written in terms of equation (2.5 ) as:
log PIOO
=
(2.6)
Kv
although since the end-point (PIOO) is different and since the moisturecontent constant refers to a log value, the values of the constants K v and C1 would be different. The essential difference between the
