Humble garden pea helps scientists develop 'cool,' noninvasive diagnostic test of seed quality

Monday, February 1, 2010 - 16:14 in Biology & Nature

Scientists from Kew's Millennium Seed Bank in the United Kingdom and the University of Graz, Austria, have developed a rapid, new method to diagnose seed quality non-invasively and in real time. The results are published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and have great significance for conservation ecology and agriculture.

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