Seed Certification in the Southeast

Author

Sunanda Sakharam Rao, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Date of Award

5-1960

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Major

Plant Sciences

Major Professor

L. N. Skold

Committee Members

Robert S. Dotson, Fred H. Norris

Abstract

[From the Introduction] [Abbreviated]

This paper is intended to be a review of the seed certification program operating in the United States. Here the certification is the responsibility of the individual states. The schemes are operated either by government agencies or by legally authorized seed growers associations.

The purpose of seed certification is to make available to the public high quality seed and propagating materials of superior crop plant varieties, so grown and so distributed as to insure genetic identity, varietal purity and mechanical quality. Fundamentally it is a system to improve yield and quality of field crops.

Comments

Problem in Lieu of Thesis. Major is listed as Agronomy.

Recommended Citation

Rao, Sunanda Sakharam, "Seed Certification in the Southeast. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 1960.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/4401