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Seed biology and technology: At the crossroads and beyond. Introduction to the Symposium on Seed Biology and Technology: Applications and Advances and a prospectus for the future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Kent J. Bradford  and
Marc A. Cohn
Kent J. Bradford
Affiliation:
Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis, CA 95616–8631, USA
Marc A. Cohn
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, 302 Life Sciences Building, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-0001, USA
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The papers in this special section of Seed Science Research are products of a symposium on Seed Biology and Technology: Applications and Advances, held in Fort Collins, Colorado, on 13–16 August, 1997. The symposium was convened as a cooperative effort of Regional Research Project W-168 within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cooperative States Research, Extension and Education Service (CSREES) system. Regional Research Projects are authorized by the Hatch Act, which established the Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) system in the United States (US Code). This is a system in which land-grant institutions in each state conduct research and education programmes relevant to agriculture, the environment and society. Regional Research projects are a mechanism ‘for cooperative research in which two or more State agricultural experiment stations are cooperating to solve problems that concern the agriculture of more than one state.’ Such projects ‘can provide the solution to a problem of fundamental importance or fill an important gap in our knowledge from the standpoint of the present and future agriculture of the region’

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Research Papers
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Seed Science Research , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , June 1998 , pp. 153 - 160
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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