Seed quality and its importance

Seed quality is critical to achieving successful crop cultivation, propagation and breeding, whilst seeds are also pivotal to the conservation and management of plant genetic resources.

Understanding seed science

The sector must develop a better understanding of seed quality, germination and seedling emergence to ensure successful crop establishment.

Advances in seed technology

Advances in seed science and technology for more sustainable crop production provides an authoritative review of the wealth of current research on key advances in seed science and technology.

Development of new techniques

The collection considers the development of new techniques to ensure seed quality control, including seed phenotyping, hyper-spectral imaging and electrophotography.

Recent progress in seed treatments

Later chapters discuss advances in seed coating, conditioning and priming techniques, as well as the growing use of biostimulant-based seed treatments throughout agriculture.