[How to protect crops against diseases?: Seed treatment - non-pesticide control methods]
2006
Vico, I.(Poljoprivredni fakultet, Beograd - Zemun (Serbia))
Seeds are treated in order to promote good seedling establishment, to minimize yield loss or to maintain and improve yield quality, and avoid further spread of the pathogen. Seed treatments are designed to inactive pathogens present externally or internally on the seed or soilborne microorganisms. They include biological, chemical, mechanical or physical processes which results in the emergence of healthy seedlings and subsequently healthy plants. Biological seed treatments control seed pathogens using antagonists or superparasits, were chemical seed treatment includes applications of different chemicals such as acids. In physical treatments heat or radiation is used and in mechanical methods seed is cleaned by eliminating distorted ones and parts of fruit or pathogen, which accompany seed. The future stands ahead of these, alternative seed treatments for they are much more ecofriendly.
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