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The Effect Of Dry Heating On Alfalfa Seed And Adulterants, Ernest V. Staker
The Effect Of Dry Heating On Alfalfa Seed And Adulterants, Ernest V. Staker
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The relationship of artificial heating to the germination of seeds has been a subject of more or less interest for the last 75 years. Like other research work, experimenters first had their attention called to the problem largely as the result of innate curiosity. They were interested in the result as measured by germinative power, of the application to seeds of different amounts of heat for varying periods of time, consequently many divergent and sundry experiments were carried out. Seeds of a large number of plants have been subjected to tests and the results recorded. The investigations include the effect …