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Record W2132970242 · doi:10.21273/hortsci.41.3.612

Suitability of Different Gels as Seed Carriers and Germination and Emergence Promoters in Processing Carrots

2006· article· en· W2132970242 on OpenAlexafffund
Rowan D. Briscoe, Rajasekaran R. Lada, C. D. Caldwell, Kevin J. Sibley

Bibliographic record

VenueHortScience · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicSeed Germination and Physiology
Canadian institutionsNova Scotia Department of Agriculture
FundersDepartment of Agriculture, Nova Scotia
KeywordsGerminationHorticultureAgarGuarMoistureGuar gumBiologyAgronomyMaterials scienceFood scienceComposite material

Abstract

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Stand establishment is critical for optimizing yield and quality in carrots. Low soil temperatures and moisture conditions often challenge seed germination and emergence. Providing an artificial exosperm with appropriate germination promoters, stress conditioners and growth invigorators to the seed may facilitate uniform germination and emergence. Germination patterns and velocity of germination of `Oranza' carrot was studied. Seeds were mixed in different types of gels at various ratios and incubated at either 5 or 20 °C. Gels used were Laponite RD, Laponite RDS, guar gum, algenic acid, and agar. Data on germination percentage was collected and the velocity of germination was calculated. Germination was delayed at 5 °C. Both at 5 and 20 °C, Laponite RD promoted and enhanced germination and vigor, and resulted in the highest mean germination percentage (90% at 20 °C and 89% at 5 °C). Laponite RD at 2.5% has shown an overall advantage in germination percentage (94% at 20 °C and 87% at 5 °C) over other gel types and concentrations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.697
Threshold uncertainty score0.122

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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