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PACKAGES

Test length (days)

Sample Size

Basic =
Germination and 1000 seed weight, seed rate table

6-7

10g

Express =
Tetrazolium seed viability (TZV) & 1000 seed weight

1-3

10g


SEED DISEASE

Test length (days)

Sample Size

OILSEEDS / FODDER RAPE

 

 

Alternaria test

5-6

25g

Canker (Phoma)

11

25g

FLAX / LINSEED

 

 

Seed-borne pathogens (Alternaria, Botrytis, Phoma, Colletotrichum, Fusarium, Mycosphaerella)

5

25g

SOYA BEAN

 

 

Diaporthe phaseolorum

7

25g

Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycine

21

25g


SEED QUALITY

Test length (days)

Sample Size

Oilseed Rape

Brassicas, Flax, Linseed

Soya Bean, Sunflower

Germination

7-10

10g

10g

250g

Diagnostic germination [osr only]

7-10

10g

~ ~

~ ~

Tetrazolium seed viability (% viable) (TZV)

1-3

10g

10g

250g

Tetrazolium seed viability & vigour (TZ2V)

1-3

10g

10g

250g

1000 seed weight

1-3

10g

10g

600g

Purity

1-3

10g

15g

600g

Other seed count

1-3

100g

100g

600g

Seed Moisture - Meter test

1-2

300g

300g

300g

Seed Moisture - Oven test

1-2

50g

50g

50g

Sclerotia (of Sclerotinia spp.) search in 50g wt.

[brassicas, flax, linseed only]

1-3

~

70g

~


PRODUCE QUALITY

- INCLUDES OILSEED RAPE, BRASSICAS, FLAX, LINSEED,

SOYA BEAN & SUNFLOWER

Test length (days)

Sample Size

Fatty acid profile (including erucic acid)

2-3

100g

Glucosinolate content (XRF)

1-3

100g

Glucosinolate content (HPLC)

3-4

100g

Oil content (NMR)

1-3

100g

Oil content (solvent extraction)

2-3

100g