METHOD OF PREDICTING FIELD EMERGENCY OF GENERAL CROP SEEDS Russian patent published in 1994 - IPC

FIELD: agriculture. SUBSTANCE: method involves placing seeds on moistened growing mat; providing growing of seeds in darkness at the temperature of 20-25 C under sand layer with the thickness of 1.5 cm; counting emerged seeds upon expiration of 8-10 days determining field emergency in accordance with amount of sprouts having bent leaf on the level of coleoptile emergence. EFFECT: increased efficiency and precise prediction of field emergency of seeds. 3 tbl