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Originally Posted by JamesL
Agreed. It surprised me too the first time I read it.
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If you look closely at that list you'll see that some of the pathogens listed are said to be seedborne but are only found on the exterior of the seed, mainly the fungal ones, but bacterial, viral and viroid ones are on the interior only.
I think I referred to Dr. Helene Dillard above and what she showed was that fermentation was effective in removing almost all of the fungal ones from the seed exterior, and that infection is quantititative so that lessens the chances that actual infection will occur.
And as I also noted, studies such as hers have not been done with oxidative methods. Several folks have tried, and failed to find the efficacy of oxidative methods for tomatoes and Imention that b'c there is data for other kinds of seeds. But then Dr, Dillard had large grants, from either Heinz or Campbells. to fund her research.
Carolyn