Sentence examples for treating seeds from inspiring English sources

Organic mercury compounds, particularly phenylmercury acetate, are used as agricultural fungicides for treating seeds, spraying fruit trees, and controlling weed growth.

Debbie Barker, a program director for SOS, said a Bowman victory at the supreme court could nudge the industry towards opening up and treating seeds as a common resource, not a fiercely fought-over commercial battleground.

Control includes growing resistant varieties in noninfested soil, treating seeds with a fungicide, using disease-free transplants, and destroying infected plants or plant parts before the spores are released.

Under the European measures, which take effect Dec. 1, there will be sharp restrictions on three neonicotinoid pesticides — clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiametoxam — for treating seeds, soil and leaves on flowering crops attractive to bees, like corn, sunflowers and rapeseed, the source of canola oil.

In this study, a novel dwarf mutant, NM9, was created by treating seeds of the wheat variety NAU9918 with ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS).

By treating seeds and seedlings, respectively, of cucumber with SiNPs (0, 100, 200 and 300 ppm) and subsequent determination some germination and vegetative parameters as well as chemical analysis of seedlings, we verified that SiNPs succeeded to alleviate the detrimental effects of high Na+ salinity by increasing germination parameters and vegetative growth of cucumber seedlings.

Some of the treated seeds had been mistakenly turned into flour, and then bread.

All the treated seeds came up; none of the untreated ones did.

It is alarmist scaremongering from the people profiting from treated seeds".

These chemicals are different from other pesticides because, instead of being sprayed over crops, they are usually used to treat seeds.

Another is that the regime was set up for pesticide sprays, not systemic chemicals like neonicitinoids that are used to treat seeds.