Mechanical Damage to Soybean Seed during Processing
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Abstract
The effects of seed cleaning and handling on soybean seed germination and physicalintegrity were determined with changing seed moisture content. In addition, storage behavior ofseed and loss of storability caused by damage resulting from free-fall from different heightswere determined.Six lots of the variety MACS-13 at three different moisture contents were passedthrough a vertical bucket elevator, cleaner with grader, and gravity separator and evaluated formechanical damage, germination, and vigor index. The storage behavior of the lots, at differentstages of processing, was studied by performing an accelerated aging test. The effect of free-fallon quality of the seed was studied by dropping six seed lots from four different heights on tocement and galvanized iron floors. The vertical bucket elevator significantly decreased germination and increased splits andseed coat damage. The seed lots at 12% moisture content (m.c.) (dry basis; all moisturecontents are reported on a dry basis), suffered less loss in seed quality than the lots at 10 or11% m.c. The storage quality of seed, as predicted by the accelerated aging test, at 12% m.c.was also better than the lots at 10 or 11% m.c. A free-fall of soybean seed from differentheights on to the cement floor resulted in greater loss in quality than when dropped on to thegalvanized iron floor.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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