Seed Production Principles and Practices

About this book

Integrates seed technology and the production of agronomic species. It covers the principles and practices involved in producing, conditioning, evaluating and marketing high quality seeds.

Contents

Part 1 Seed production and the seed industry: flowering processes in plants; seed formation and development; fundamentals of seed production; planting practices; harvesting; conditioning; drying and storage; seed quality and performance; seed certification; evolution of the seed industry; seed marketing; seed legislation and law enforcement. Part 2 Seed production of specific groups of species: cereal grains; oil seeds; forage legumes; grain legumes; cool-season grasses; warm-season grasses; sugarbeets; vegetable seed production; wildflowers and native species; flower seed production.

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