 Incotec
began looking into the Blind Plants problem in tomatoes in 1995. The goal
was to develop a priming that would not increase the incidence of Blind
Plants but still allow for increased uniformity and speed of germination.
Since that time a safe priming has been developed and is now used for most
of the tomato seed lots being grown in many different countries (e.g. the
Netherlands, Brazil, Italy, Spain, Israel).Incotec regularly gets the
question whether it is possibly to "repair" tomato seed lots that have
already 10-15% blind plants, probably caused by the genetic background and
the conditions during seed production. INCOTEC continues to maintain
research projects in this area to find a repair solution.
To learn more about INCOTEC Solutions, please visit INCOTEC's website
at www.incotec.com.
Article by Henry Bruggink, Mariken Rebers. |
