Sprouted Seed Warning
Unfavourable weather at harvest this season caused sprouting in many lines of wheat intended for use as seed. Some of these have been submitted for an official germination test and have given very reassuring results.
The Department of Agriculture, however, wishes to sound a note of warning about the use of sprouted seed and makes the following recommendations: (1) Wherever possible
avoid the use of sprouted wheat for seed.
(2) If there is no alternative and the line is required send a sample to the Seed Testing Station requesting a soil test, which will give a result in line wth expected emergence in the held.
(3) Treat the seed with either Captan or Thiram preparations. Tests carried out by the Plant Diseases Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research indicate that mercury and arsenic based material can adversely affect the germination of sprouted lines, whereas lines treated with Captan and Thiram
have given substantially better results than untreated seed.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32274, 17 April 1970, Page 8
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