0 past simple and past participle of germinate --
1 to (cause a seed to) start growing: --
The beans will only germinate if the temperature is warm enough.
2 to start developing: --
None of the caryopses matured in this regime germinated at zero time compared with an initial germination of 42% for the well-watered control.
Seeds with radicles 2 mm were considered to be germinated and thus discontinued for the imbibition tests.
Under aerobic conditions, seeds germinated more rapidly at lower salinity.
At the commencement of the emergence trial, germinated seeds (radicle protrusion of 1-2 mm) were selected from each treatment and planted.
Between 60 and 80 % of seeds germinated after six months storage at 12.8 % moisture content.
None of the untreated seeds germinated, although all appeared healthy when cut open at the end of the experiment.
The initial viability of the seeds was estimated using 3 batches of 100 untreated seeds that were germinated at the start of storage.
In this experiment, 4 replicate batches of 100 seeds of each treatment combination were stored and after treatment seeds were germinated as described above.
