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Annals of Botany 62: 509-512, 1988
© 1988 Annals of Botany Company

RESEARCH-ARTICLE

The Potential for Newly-Germinated Cabbage Seed Survival and Storage at Sub-Zero Temperatures

W. E. FINCH-SAVAGE and C. I. McQUISTAN

Institute of Horticultural Research Wellesbourne, Warwick CV35 9EF, UK

Accepted: 31 May 1988   

The moisture content of newly germinated cabbage seed (radicles 1 ±0·5 mm long) was reduced to 14% of f.wt without loss of viability. As the moisture content was reduced below 45%, the temperature at which the germinated seeds froze, and therefore died, decreased progressively to a minimum of –34 °C at 19% moisture content. No freezing exotherms were recorded in seeds with moisture contents below 19%. Seeds with a moisture content between 14 and 16% maintained viability for at least 1 week when cooled at 2·6°C.min–1 to –20 °C and held at this temperature, indicating the potential for prolonged storage of these low-moisture-content germinated (LMCG) seeds.

Brassica oleracea, cabbage, germinated seed, seed storage, fluid drilling, freezing exotherm, thermal analysis


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