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Fig. 4.5.
Environmental effects on stored onion seeds. (a) The influence of
temperature, seed moisture content and initial viability on onion seed survival. The
ageing curves were developed using Eqn 4.3 (Taylor, 1997. Courtesy of CABI,
Wallingford, UK). (b) Survival curves of onion seed of 18% moisture content at
25 (
). Percentage viability is plotted on a probability scale
(redrawn from Ellis and Roberts, 1977).
), 30 (
●
) and 35°C (
