Activity test and mechanism study of an environmentally friendly wheat seed coating agent

Abstract

This novel environmentally friendly wheat seed coating agent which has been made with natural polymer as the primary material could increase yield by about 9% compared with the conventionally virulent wheat seed coating agent. In the premise of this production, the content of malondialdehyde (MDA) and peroxidase (POD) was determined. The results show that, after treated by the self-made wheat seed coating agent, the contents of the MDA were less than traditional group and the blank control group and POD contents were higher than traditional group and blank control group, this provides a good foundation on the further research of self-control wheat seed coating agent.

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Zeng, D. and Zhao, H. (2013) Activity test and mechanism study of an environmentally friendly wheat seed coating agent. Agricultural Sciences, 4, 334-339. doi: 10.4236/as.2013.47048.

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