{"id":1780,"date":"2015-11-12T11:32:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T11:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2015-11-12T11:32:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T11:32:34","slug":"differential-longevity-of-castor-ricinus-communis-l-germplasm-conserved-under-uncontrolled-storage-conditions-across-extended-periods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2015\/11\/differential-longevity-of-castor-ricinus-communis-l-germplasm-conserved-under-uncontrolled-storage-conditions-across-extended-periods\/","title":{"rendered":"Differential Longevity of Castor (Ricinus communis L.) Germplasm Conserved Under Uncontrolled Storage Conditions across Extended Periods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from India performed an experiment to analyse the differential longevity of castor germplasm conserved under uncontrolled storage conditions.\u00a0 Seed longevity of 2961 castor accessions stored for &lt;1-19 years under ambient conditions was investigated to analyse the loss in vigour by the castor seed and also <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-42 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Castor-Oil-Seeds-Traders-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"castor seeds\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>determine the genetic variability for seed longevity.<\/p>\n<p>Results showed that castor seed retained 40% germination even after 19 years of storage. All the accessions maintained 100% germination for one year, but from the second year, differential germination percentage was observed among accessions stored for the same duration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/15427528.2015.1079758\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from India performed an experiment to analyse the differential longevity of castor germplasm conserved under uncontrolled storage conditions.\u00a0 Seed longevity of 2961 castor accessions stored for &lt;1-19 years under ambient conditions was investigated to analyse the loss in vigour &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2015\/11\/differential-longevity-of-castor-ricinus-communis-l-germplasm-conserved-under-uncontrolled-storage-conditions-across-extended-periods\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,11],"tags":[206,14],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castor-research","category-castor-seeds","tag-castor-research","tag-castor-seeds-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}