Definition-Seed Treatment

Definition-Seed Treatment

    • The processed seeds are treated with fungicides and insecticides to protect the seed against storage pests.
    • The purposes of seed treatment are
    Seed disinfection
    • To eliminate pathogens which have penetrated into the living cells of the seed infected it and become established, the fungicidal treatment must actually penetrate the seed.
    Seed disinfestations
    • Seeds are commonly contaminated on the surface by spores or other forms of pathogenic organisms without being penetrated or infected by the organisms (i.e.,) destruction of surface borne organism.
    Seed protections
    • To protect the seed and young seedlings against the pathogenic organisms either under storage or in the soil.

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