Progress Report on Understanding AFIS Seed Coat Nep Levels in Pre-Opened Slivers

Wednesday, January 6, 2016: 10:00 AM
Galerie 4 (New Orleans Marriott)
Joe Montalvo , USDA-ARS-SRRC
Terri Von Hoven , USDA-ARS-SRRC
AFIS slivers were pre-opened and manually cleaned, spiked with known seed coat fragments and analyzed by the neps sensor. All entities were visually examined pre and post AFIS testing to help understand the seed coat nep counts. The initial results are presented.