Sentence examples for testing seeds from inspiring English sources

Methods proposed to reduce the risk to human consumers include testing seeds, irrigation water, and sprouts for pathogens (7 – 12 ) and disinfecting seeds (13 – 16 ).

Between experiments and prior to germination testing, seeds were stored in a cabinet with air circulating above a saturated CaCl2 salt solution (RH 35%%) and a temperature of 20 °C.

You can test seeds for viability by putting a dozen between sheets of damp paper towels in a plastic bag at room temperature.

Tree breeders will now be able to test seeds to see if they carry the high-yield version of SHELL, for example, rather than waiting for six years for the seed to grow into a tree that bears fruit.

For phenol test, seeds were pre-soaked in distilled water for 24 h.

The test seeds grown in the absence of the Ag NPs were taken as a microbial control (control 1) and the test seeds grown in absence of F. oxysporum were taken as seed control (control 2).

The data collected with the microCT scans also mirrored the results from the water-soaking test and germination filter-paper test (seeds were numbered).

All tested seeds, but FS, have to be treated in purpose to reduce their N degradability, if they are to be used as main protein sources in highly productive diets for ruminants.

The concentration of soluble inorganic phosphorus of the tested seeds was negatively (r = −0.57*) and the concentration of soluble organic phosphorus positively (r = +0.49*) correlated with the germination percentage.

Fifteen seed equivalents from each fraction were applied to 15 test seeds, which were used in the seed-carrying assay with at least three different ant colonies.

These seeds were almost never carried (Table S3), and addition of glucose, fructose, or sucrose, together or separately, to dilute seed extracts did not increase ant preference for test seeds treated with those extracts (Fig. S1; Tables S4 and S5).