Seed Production
Seed Production

Author: Miller F. McDonald

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 755

ISBN-13: 1461540747

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Plant breeders continue to make significant advances in developing high yield ing, adaptable, disease-free crops. These advances, however, are not realized until an efficient seed production system is in place that rapidly increases geneti cally superior crops and makes them available to the consumer in large quantities at a reasonable cost. Successful seed production requires seed to be genetically pure, free of admixtures, and able to establish rapidly a uniform stand. Seed production is a complex process. Rigorous production criteria are followed by both seed producer and seed companies to ensure that high-quality seed is produced and marketed. These criteria become even more stringent in hybrid seed production. This volume identifies the factors most critical in a successful seed production operation. The fundamental considerations common to all seed crops are established in Part I, Principles of Seed Production. From this founda tion, the practices of seed production are provided in detail in Part II, Seed Production of Specific Crops.

Grassland Seeds
Grassland Seeds

Author: William Archie Wheeler

Publisher:

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 770

ISBN-13:

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Grassland seeds; Seed formation and germination; Good stands from good seed; Testing field seeds; Insect pollination of legumes; Insects injurious to forage seeds; Desease problems in forage crop seed production; Treatment of forage seeds for disease control; Legume seed inoculation; Seed production of grassland crops; Harvesting and threshing forage seed; Processing field seeds; Drying and storing field seeds; Certification of field seeds and foundation seed program; Marketing forage seeds; International trade in field seeds; Estimating field seed crops; Evolution of the field seed industry; Special crops: Alfalfa; True clovers; Soybeans, cowpeas, and velvetbeans; Sweetclovers, vetches, trefoil, and field peas; Timothy, orchardgrass, smooth bromegrass, tall fescue, and meadow fescue; Other northern grasses; Wheatgrasses and wildrye; Western grasses; Southern grasses; Great plains grasses; Sorghums, broomcorn, sudangrass, johnsongrass and millets. Appendix: Glossary of terms; Forage crop seed information; Field seed statistics; Screen suggestions for clearing field seeds; Trade rules of the A,erican Seed Trade Association; Seed Certificatiion Standards; Seed Marketing Conference of 1926; Statement of Responsibilities and Policies Relating to Seed; Seed Improvement - Looking achead.