Liming enhances longevity of wheat seeds produced in acid soils

Abstract The environment where plants grow, such as acidic soils, interferes with the nutrient concentration and physiological quality of seeds. This hypothesis was tested using wheat seeds as a model crop, grown in a tropical soil with and without lime application for twelve years. Here we show tha...

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Main Authors: Tiago Alexandre da Silva, Carlos Alexandre Costa Crusciol, Thiago Barbosa Batista, João William Bossolani, Gustavo Roberto Fonseca de Oliveira, Denise Puntel Basso, Antônio Carlos de Almeida Carmeis Filho, Juliana Pereira Bravo, Edvaldo Aparecido Amaral da Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-10-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21176-6