Bleach Treatment for Tomato Seed Disinfection

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Originally Posted by carolyn137

The first link you gave had only the abstract,with no mention of pathogens detected,so I went back to that one and fetched the other link which is

http://www.tomatosolutions.ca/

I was able to review their breeding worrk and varieties mentioned,but didn't have time to check to see where they named pathogens detected or who their customers were.So if you could help me with that I would appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,

Carolyn

Section 5 18A control group of seeds were confirmed to be 100 percent infested with Bacterial pathogens..

They didn't attempt to identify the the specific bacteria on the seed coat .In an earlier study they identified and eliminated all bacteria and even bacterial spores.

"Bacterial colonies found on tomato seed treated with lower levels of chlorine were
uniform and similar in appearance. In other seed treatment work (Dick, 1981), both
yeasts and bacteria were found on the seed, and the presence of spore forming bacteria
such as Bacillus spp. was confirmed. In the present study, the identification of bacteria
found on the seed was not attempted but they may have been spore forming bacteria with
significant resistance to chlorine disinfection. Non-spore forming pathogens would be
eliminated prior to the destruction of spore forming bacteria."

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