Fumigation of agricultural products. XIV.—Treatment of peas and beans with methyl bromide

✍ Scribed by O. F. Lubatti; R. E. Blackith

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1956
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 509 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5142
• DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.2740070507

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Peas and beans are notably resistant to damage by methyl bromide fumigation. Even when these seeds contain as much as 19% water, they may safely be fumigated at concentration‐time products sufficient to control the infestation of legumes with insects usually found in stored products. Peas and beans differ from onion seed and groundnuts in that the damage done by fumigation is substantially independent of the moisture content of the seed. They will, nevertheless, deteriorate if stored at more than about 15% moisture content from the action of the moisture by itself. However, as with the other seeds, peas and beans that survive damp storage or fumigation with methyl bromide give essentially the same yield as do untreated seeds. Attempts to relate the results of germination tests in sand to viability tests with tetrazolium salt have proved difficult, although damage to the seeds could be detected by this method.