Seed Certification in the Southeast

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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.

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