Development and validation of relationships between sunflower seed quality and easily measurable seed characteristics for grading purposes

South African Journal of Plant and Soil

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 201-205

  Nel, A A ^a   Loubser, H L ^a   Hammes, P S ^b  

^a ARC GRAIN CROPS INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Seed characteristics; Seed grading; Seed quality; Sunflower

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; QUALITY CONTROL; SEED;

HELIANTHUS;

EID: 0036941469     PISSN: 02571862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02571862.2002.10634465     Document Type: Article

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