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Published online 1 July 1965
Published in Agron J 57:321-322 (1965)
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Some Effects of Paradichlorobenzene, Napthalene, DDT and Ceresan on the Germination of Field Crop Seed1

A. D. Day and R. K. Thompson2

Synopsis: Open containers were more satisfactory than closed when paradichlorobenzene and naphthalene were used as seed-storage chemicals. DDT reduced seed viability the least. Ceresan M was convenient to use, but it decreased germination. Naphthalene did not decrease seed viability as rapidly as paradichlorobenzene, which decreased germination faster than the other chemicals studied. Packaging seed in paper bags before placing it in a container with paradichlorobenzene did not substantially increase viability over placing it in direct contact with the chemical.

1 Contribution from the Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. Published with the approval of the Director of the Arizona Agr. Exp. Sta. as Journal Article No. 936.

2 Agronomist, Arizona Agr. Exp. Sta., University of Arizona, Tucson, and Research Associate in Agronomy, Mesa Branch Experiment Station, Mesa, Arizona. The authors are grateful to the Advance Seed Co., Phoenix, Arizona, for supplying seed of a number of the field crops.

Received for publication November 13, 1964.




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