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2. Seed saving - Wikipedia

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   Partially shelled popcorn seed saved for planting. In agriculture and gardening, seed saving (sometimes known as brown bagging) [1] is the practice of saving seeds or other reproductive material (e.g. tubers, scions, cuttings) from vegetables, grain, herbs, and flowers for use from year to year for annuals and nuts, tree fruits, and berries for perennials and trees. [2]

3. Sowing - Wikipedia

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   This treatment may be seed scarification, stratification, seed soaking or seed cleaning with cold (or medium hot) water. Seed soaking is generally done by placing seeds in medium hot water for at least 24 to up to 48 hours [ 2 ] Seed cleaning is done especially with fruit, as the flesh of the fruit around the seed can quickly become prone to ...

4. Seed treatment - Wikipedia

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   For formulations with pesticides, direct application to seeds can be environmentally more friendly, as the amounts used can be very small. [2] Color makes treated seed less attractive to birds, and easier to see and clean up in the case of an accidental spillage. [3] A thick coating can improve handling, by hand or by machine.

5. Edible oil refining - Wikipedia

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   Edible oil refining is a set of processes or treatments necessary to turn vegetable raw oil into edible oil.. Raw vegetable oil, obtained from seeds by pressing, solvent extraction, contains free fatty acids and other components such as phospholipids, waxes, peroxides, aldehydes, and ketones, which contribute to undesirable flavor, odor, and appearance; [1] for these reasons, all the oil has ...

6. Seed enhancement - Wikipedia

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   Seed enhancement is a range of treatments of seeds that improves their performance after harvesting and conditioned, but before they are sown. They include priming, steeping, hardening, pregermination, pelleting, encrusting, film-coating, tagging and others, but excludes treatments for control of seed born pathogens .

7. The negative seed oil hype is all wrong, experts say — the ...

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   “The current U.S. intake of oils is in the range recommended for heart health,” Petersen assured. A few eyebrows could be raised over the fact that the new review was “financially supported ...

8. Fruit and vegetable wash - Wikipedia

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   Vegetable wash also removes germs, waxes on vegetable and fruits, and also the pesticides. [1] Vegetable washes may either be a number of specially-marketed commercial brands, [2] or they may be home recipes. [3] Commercial vegetable washes generally contain surfactants, along with chelating agents, antioxidants, and other agents. [3]

9. Mucilage - Wikipedia

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   A sundew with a leaf bent around a fly trapped by mucilage. Mucilage is a thick gluey substance produced by nearly all plants and some microorganisms.These microorganisms include protists which use it for their locomotion, with the direction of their movement always opposite to that of the secretion of mucilage. [1]