Cereal Seed Saving And Stabilization

Used in

• Chapter 6 The Five-Year Conversation

The rows that check it

• 2 confirmed
• 3 amended
• 3 unresolved
• 2 marked for safety

• F1 amended Safety Ergot: alkaloids, gangrene/convulsions, St Anthony's fire; brine at ~1/6 salt (160 g/l) floats sclerotia, wash and dry at once; EU limit 0.5 mg/kg alkaloids in rye flour falling …
• F2 amended Safety Hot-water loose smut: 51–55 °C 10–20 min (Bench: 52 °C 15 min after 4 h cold soak), one degree over kills embryo; cold plunge
• F30 unresolved Winter wheat "frequently fails" on sand vs 26/27 treat as routine; rye premier
• F33 unresolved VERN e.V., Greiffenberg (Uckermark), >650 cereal provenances; five ryes named; Champagnerroggen pre-1900, 2 m, no fertiliser
• F34 unresolved Saatgutverkehrsgesetz forbids sale of unregistered varieties; Directive 2008/62/EC conservation varieties; farm-saved seed ~50 % of German cereal seed with Nachbaugebühr
• F51 confirmed Self-pollinators 1–2 m; rye 250–300 m (27 also "up to 200 m"); rye floor 100–200 plants; Hopkins ear-to-row 1908
• F53 confirmed Germination test 100 seeds 20 °C 7–10 d, fail <78–80 %; storage table 14 %/21 °C 200 d, 15 % 125 d, 17 % 20 d; Herrington halving; barn 95→88 % in 250 d; drying air ≤43–48 °C
• F54 amended Bunt: mustard flour 10 g/kg or 5 % acetic acid 20 ml/kg

In the Index

Grain, flour and bread Seed Berlin and Brandenburg