A standard germination test – which takes around 7–10 days – shows the percentage of seeds that germinate in a representative seed sample. Conducted under controlled (optimum) conditions, it indicates ...

I’m often contacted by people saying they have sown seeds and nothing has come up. Most often it turns out they’ve been purchased from a supermarket or DIY shed and I suspect they’ve either been ...

It is important to understand the quality of cereal seed intended for drilling, especially the presence of seedborne diseases. This page includes the tests and thresholds available for certified, farm ...

To have official seed samples tested for physical purity, germination and/or viability, Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development samplers must draw the samples. The official seed ...

“I know of no companies that provide pericarp scores. So have your seed tested by a professional laboratory.” A seed lot with a high warm-germination score but low cold and saturated-cold ...

and administered by the University of Wyoming to serve the seed testing needs of farmers, private and public seed buyers, seedsmen, the Wyoming Crop Improvement Association, University of Wyoming seed ...

you can apply for an ISTA certificate at the Official Seed Testing Laboratory (OSTL). The OSTL is an accredited member laboratory (accreditation number ZA01) of ISTA and authorised to issue ...

If you want to evaluate on a test set with gold parses, or if you want to train your own structural probes, read on. Experiments run with this repository are specified via yaml files that completely ...

This guide covers how to store seeds and test seed viability so you never waste time sowing seeds that won’t grow. Herb, ...

Our approach generates an average of ×13.44 more discriminatory instances at ×14.51 faster speed compared to existing seed-based methods. These findings indicate that FairBS expands the boundaries of ...