Assessing post-harvest interim seed storage conditions: a case study of four boreal plant species
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The longevity of seeds in storage is modulated by the initial quality as well as the storage conditions. Seeds of four boreal species were stored for a varying amount of time (0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks) at 4°C to determine the appropriate interim storage conditions after harvest and before processing. The highest germination of Solidago canadensis (75%), Shepherdia canadensis (79%) and Populus balsamifera (100%) seeds was observed for the four weeks at 4°C treatment. However, P. tremuloides germination was reduced by 22.5% when seeds were kept at 4°C for 3 or 4 weeks relative to the control; the reduction was less (1.5%) when seeds were kept at 4°C for 1 or 2 weeks. No significant difference in mean germination time (MGT) or germination synchrony (SYN) was recorded following the different storage treatments and the control for Populus tremuloides or P. balsamifera . However, in Shepherdia canadensis , the MGT of the seeds in the 3-week treatment was longer, while in Solidago canadensis , the 3 or 4 weeks at 4°C treatment improved the SYN relative to the control. The result suggests opportunities exist to store certain boreal seeds after harvest and before processing without reducing their germination characteristics.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
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 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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