A five-minute field test for on-farm detection of pre-harvest sprouting in wheat

Crop Science

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 742-756

  Skerritt, John H ^a   Heywood, Russell H ^b,c  

^a Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research   (Australia)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COLOR; GRAIN; IMMOBILIZED ANTIBODY; IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOENZYME; SPROUTING; TESTING;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0034044122     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2000.403742x     Document Type: Article

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