Abstract
HANKIN, L., and D. C. SANDS. 1977. Microwave treatment of tobacco seed to eliminate bacteria on the seed surface. Phytopathology 67: 794-795. Treatment with microwave radiation for 20 min eliminated coats without affecting germination. Erwinia carotovora var. carotovora on infested tobacco seed
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record, shown for indexing and research. Copyright remains with the authors or the publisher. Read at the source ↗
The text the model read, with the source record’s inline markup (italics, sub- and superscripts) rendered and its character entities decoded; quote offsets refer to the raw text.
Claims 2
Claim · model-written summary
Twenty minutes of microwave treatment eliminated Erwinia carotovora var. carotovora from infested tobacco seed coats.
- Taxon
- tobacco
Nicotiana tabacume0 - Treatment
- microwave radiation for 20 mine0
- Interactor
- Erwinia carotovora var. carotovora
Pectobacterium carotovorume0pathogen - Outcome
- Erwinia carotovora var. carotovora on infested tobacco seede0
- Direction
- eliminatede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Tobacco Seed”
e0“Treatment with microwave radiation for 20 min eliminated coats without affecting germination. Erwinia carotovora var. carotovora on infested tobacco seed”
Claim · model-written summary
Twenty minutes of microwave radiation did not affect germination of tobacco seed.
- Taxon
- TobaccoNicotiana tabacumt0
- Treatment
- microwave radiation for 20 mine0
- Outcome
- germinatione0
- Direction
- without affectinge0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Tobacco Seed”
e0“Treatment with microwave radiation for 20 min eliminated coats without affecting germination.”
The same questions in other papers
radiation · growth · Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco)Positive and negative results
9 papers in the same direction as this paper · 2 in the opposite direction
- positive
- positive
- no effect
8 papers more in this group
See all 12 papers →processing · growth · Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco)Positive and negative results
2 papers in the same direction as this paper · 13 in the opposite direction
- positive
- positive
- positive
12 papers more in this group
See all 16 papers →Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.