Potential of the electrical conductivity of seed soak water and early counts of radicle emergence to assess seed quality in some native species

The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007- 2013/ under REA grant agreement n°607785 (NASSTEC). We thank Pietro Iannetta, Sean Chapman and Kathryn Wright from the James Hutton Institute in Dundee for their assistance in seed internal morphology assessments. We thank Peter Toorop and Cristina Blandino for their valuable suggestions.