Meanings
adjectivepregerminated (not comparable)
- not comparablegerminated in advance of another procedure
The same procedure was followed for the cold + seeding-depth stress experiment, except that the pregerminated seeds were planted at a depth of 10cm, grown at 25°C for 10d, then incubated at 10°C for 6, 24, and 96hr before harvesting leaf tissues.
2015 August 1, “Analysis of Stress-Responsive Gene Expression in Cultivated and Weedy Rice Differing in Cold Stress Tolerance”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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