Applied Seed Technology Solutions


Services

Seed Cleaning and Grading

 

 

High quality, pure seed is a critical ingredient in efficient seedling production.
seedPurity has developed colour sorting techniques for forestry seed.
This novel application of optical sorting technology enables seed of many species to be cleaned to a very high standard of purity and quality at reduced cost

 

Colour Sorting Applications

 
(a)
(b)


Seedlot purification
Samples of
a) E. nitens seed (>99.9% pure seed by particle count) and
b) foreign particles (right) separated by colour sorting.


  
         
 
(c)
(d)


Upgrading seed lot quality
Samples of
c) mature and
d) immature and damaged E. nitens seed separated by colour sorting

 

  



Species we Clean and Grade:

  • Eucalyptus
  • Pinus radiata
  • other forestry and native species

Other Seed Cleaning Services we Offer:

  • Air screening and density separations
  • Pinus seed de-winging
  • Seed size and density grading.

 
 

 

Seed Cleaning Facilities

seedPurity operates an AQIS accredited seed cleaning plant
 

 

Seed Testing and Pre-Treatment

 

Seed Testing

Species

  • Eucalyptus
  • Pinus
  • other forest and native species
  • vegetable and horticultural seeds

Services

  • purity, germination and vigour tests
  • priming tests
  • seed counts

 

  
 

Seed Pre-treatment

seedPurity offers a range of seed pre-treatments to improve seed performance in the nursery and the field.

 

  
 
 
 

 


seedPurity E. nitens priming trials.
Priming increases seed germination percentage and rate and uniformity of emergence in the nursery
Control seed = not treated.
All seed sown on the same day

 

 



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