Behavior of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seeds in short term storage
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The stored seeds inevitably diminish their viability and on this, influence mainly the conditions inside the used containers more than those of the atmosphere they are conserved, and among them, the content of humidity of the seed is the one which possesses the bigger incidence. In the present research, the obtained results when conserving wheat seeds under different conditions are shown. Two types of containers and two different humidity contents of the seeds were used and they were stored in cold chambers and also at environment temperature. The dried up seeds at the tested humidity contents (4.3 and 6.5%) maintained germination levels superior to 95% by 16 months of conservation at cold chambers; and even, the germinations stay above 95% when being stored to the environment temperature, when these levels of humidity were combined with containers with certain hermeticity, like sealed glass vessels and aluminium-foiled bags.
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