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Seed as it comes from the field is never pure. It usually arrives at the cleaning plant containing large quantities of trash, green leaves, weeds, other crop seeds, and insects. If it contains such materials as green leaves and other high-moisture materials, it cannot be safely stored, efficiently handled, nor accurately cleaned until most of the foreign material has been removed. The process of removing these unwanted materials from a seed lot is known as seed conditioning.
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Copeland, L.O., McDonald, M.B. (1999). Seed Conditioning and Handling. In: Principles of Seed Science and Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1783-2_10
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