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Botany · Ch 9 — Plant Breeding

Seed Storage

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Seed Storage

Seed storage effectively begins on the mother plant itself, from the moment the seed reaches physiological maturity, and storage in the broader sense is the preservation of viable seed from the time it is collected until it is needed for sowing. After harvest, seed may be held in warehouses, in transit, or in retail outlets before it finally reaches the farmer, so how it is stored in t …