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Seed Viability Test with 2, 3, 5 Tri-Phenyl Tetrazolium Chloride

Volume : 38
Issue: May-may
Pages: 248 - 251
Published: November 10, 2023
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Abstract


In 1941 Kuhn and Jerchel (6) drew attention to the properties of colourless tetrazolium salts which get reduced by some phytochemical process to stable red formosans on contact with the tissues of embryos of viable seeds and suggested their use as reduction indicators of living tissues. Since then, the test has been in use in German Breeding Stations for testing viability in oats.

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248 - 251
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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