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IT has been known for more than forty years thata high temperature is essential for the germination of oil palm seed1, and on a commercial scale seed is germinated in sand beds exposed to the Sun, in fermentation pits or in artificially heated germinators. The optimum temperature for the germination of kernels was shown by Hussey2 to lie between 38 and 40°C., and a temperature of 39.5 ° C. has been successfully adopted for germinating seed in a specially designed germinator4.
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Rees, A. R., J. W. Afr. Inst. for Oil Palm Res., 3, 83 (1959).
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REES, A. Effect of High-Temperature Pre-Treatment on the Germination of Oil Palm Seed. Nature 189, 74–75 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189074b0
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