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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (3): 15-18.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb16060106

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Effects of Artificial Aging on Seed Vigor and Ultraweak Luminescence of Wheat seeds

  

  • Received:2016-06-21 Revised:2016-12-30 Accepted:2016-08-16 Online:2017-02-10 Published:2017-02-10

Abstract: In order to ascertain the effect of artificial aging on ultraweak luminescence and the correlation between UWL and seed vigor, and explore a new way of seed vigor non-destructive testing, seeds of wheat variety ‘Jimai 22’ were used to study the changes of UWL intensity and its relationship to seed vigor and ATP content during artificial aging. The results show that with the extension of artificial aging time, the germination percentage, germination potential, germination index, UWL intensity and ATP content decreased gradually; after artificial aging for 48h, they were reduced by 19.19%、34.34%、38.78%、27.77% and 13.84% respectively as compared with the control. Correlation analysis indicated that the UWL intensity is significantly and positively correlated with germination percentage, germination potential, germination index and ATP content. It was concluded that UWL as a detection method of fast, nondestructive and sensitive can be applied in the study of seed vigor non-destructive testing.

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