Question

3. What are good quality seeds? You are given a sample of wheat seeds. How will you select good, healthy seeds for sowing? ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Good quality seeds basically mean the most competent seeds, which will definitely give rise to a healthy plant, which would bear more healthy seeds.

This is important when you’re dealing with plants at a large scale, and you need to maintain crops for a large time frame.

Best wheat seeds would be ones who’s color, shape and size are normal (not brownish, oddly shaped, tiny or bloated). Apart from just the looks, seeds are also tested for their efficiency in germination (how many seeds from set of 100 would grow in plants when sowed

Answer 2

Good quality seeds basically mean the most competent seeds, which will definitely give rise to a healthy plant, which would bear more healthy seeds. ... Apart from just the looks, seeds are also tested for their efficiency in germination (how many seeds from set of 100 would grow in plants when sowed).

To select good, healthy seeds for sowing from a given sample of wheat seeds, we must pour all the wheat seeds into a bucket containing water. After pouring, the water containing seeds must be stirred well and seeds must be left for 2-3 hours in water.