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Longevity of maize seed (Zea mays L.) under different storage conditions

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Agricultural Sciences

Abstract

This study focuses om the changes in viability and chemical composition of maize hybrid SC168 during storage conditions. This study was conducted at the Seed Technology Department, at Sakha Agricultural Research Station, ARC, Egypt during November-2018 to April-2020. Storage conditions were two storage periods 6 and 18 months, four regimes of relative humidity, 46%, 65%, 72% and 80% and three package materials i.e. jute bags, low density polyethylene and hermetic bags. The results revealed that increasing storage period from after harvest to 6 and 18 months led to the increasing in deterioration of the viability and quality of the seeds and caused the highest of electrical conductivity, acidity% and moisture content in the seeds storage. Increasing relative humidity from 46 to 80 % significantly increased the mean value of electrical conductivity of the seed soak water (from 5.12 to 11.41 mS m-1), moisture content and acidity%, and significantly decreased the mean seed germination %, shoot length, root length, seedling dry weight, oil% and crude protein %. Hermetic bags gived high seed germination, seedling vigor and oil % and low seed moisture content, electrical conductivity and acidity %, and therefore they could delay seed quality deterioration compared with low density polyethylene and jute bags and that in conditions of high relative humidity for a period longer than six months. Finally, we can recommend the use of hermetic bags to maintain the vitality and quality of maize seeds under high relative humidity conditions for a period of up to 18 months.

DOI

10.21608/jsas.2021.88439.1300

Keywords

Humidity, Packages, periods, Storage, viability, Chemical composition, Maize

Authors

First Name

Alaa

Last Name

Shahein

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Seed Technology Research Department, Field Crop Research Institute, ARC. Giza, Egypt.

Email

dr.alaashahein@gmail.com

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First Name

Nagwa

Last Name

Shalaby

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Affiliation

Seed Technology Research Department, Field Crops Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Egypt

Email

nagwashalaby@yahoo.com

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Volume

47

Article Issue

4

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27466

Issue Date

2021-12-01

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2021-07-30

Publish Date

2021-12-01

Page Start

45

Page End

55

Print ISSN

2536-9571

Online ISSN

2536-958X

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Original Research Paper

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398

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Publication Title

Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Sciences

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https://jsas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Longevity of maize seed (Zea mays L.) under different storage conditions

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Created At

22 Jan 2023