The new methodological approaches while carrying an integrated assessment of seeds quality

Abstract

Existence of a seed material heterogeneity, having impact on its economic efficiency, demanded the development of the specialized equipment and technology. The developed technique of a seed radiographic control allowed to solve some problems: a structural integrity of a caryopsis evaluation, the extent of influence of various types of the hidden defects on its biological full value. The methodological approach, that is based on development of morpho-metric, radiographic datasheets of seeds and the morpho-physiological datasheet of sprouts, will allow more deeply to understand, first, the reasons, leading to receiving the seeds with a different level of an economic efficiency, and secondly, make it to improvement of a radiographic express method of assessment of a hidden deficiency of seeds and the production batches of seeds for forecast of a potential field germination. It will be the cardinal breakthrough in the operated seed breeding and will allow to develop effective methods of an optimum seed application rate calculation, the forecast of seeding rate depending on their biological full value, taking into account an indicator of the hidden damage.