{"id":784,"date":"2022-07-26T20:56:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T20:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zayndu.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2024-03-26T11:07:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T11:07:26","slug":"amaranth-increasing-consistency-of-germination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zayndu.com\/amaranth-increasing-consistency-of-germination\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaranth: Increasing Consistency of Germination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Treatment with Zayndu’s cold plasma seed technology was found to remove 100% of seed-born fungal diseases on Amaranth seeds, boosting germination and shortening time to harvest.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protein powerhouse<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Amaranth is a protein powerhouse. It contains all nine essential amino acids and at 14% protein, it contains close to double the amount of this important nutrient found in rice and corn. Amaranth as a pseudo-cereal is also gluten-free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plant is a distant relation to Swiss chard and spinach and can be grown for its leaves or its grain. Each seed head can yield up to 5,000 seeds which have a nutty and malty taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can also be used in processed products such as cereals and pasta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amaranth is attracting significant interest with climate change. It is a C4 plant – a turbo charged form of photosynthesis – so it is highly e\ufb03cient at \ufb01xing carbon in high-temperature and low-moisture environments and adaptable to a wide range of growing conditions and heights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uses of Amaranth<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Their leaves are versatile greens that can be eaten raw in a salad, added to a stir fry, soup, or put into a simmered dish such as a curry. They are very nutritious – a rich source of iron and potassium, which helps move oxygen to the brain, stimulating neural activity and cognitive function while reducing your risk of stroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diseases of Amaranth<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The crop is susceptible to the fungal disease Anthracnose and also to damping-off caused by Pythium, a fungi-like organism, this may occur when the seed-bed is too wet. Seeds may rot in the soil before emergence (pre-emergence damping-off) or seedlings may exhibit stem canker above the soil line and\/or root necrosis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Treatment with Activated Air<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Treatment with ActivatedAir was found to remove 100% of seed-born fungal diseases on Amaranth seeds, boosting germination and shortening time to harvest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boosting germination <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Treatment with ActivatedAir in the Zayndu system increased germination rate by 13% and the consistency. With 93% of seeds germinating within 3 days of sowing (untreated seed 45%). The entire crop is then ready for harvesting earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read our datasheet – Green Amaranth <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read our datasheet – Red Amaranth<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For further details on the Aurora systems or to find out how our Activated Air treatment could impact your crops germination rates please contact us<\/a> and one of our team will gladly assist.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amaranth is susceptible to the fungal disease Anthracnose. Treatment with cold plasma removed 100% of seed-born fungi and boosted germination rate and consistency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zayndu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zayndu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zayndu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zayndu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zayndu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zayndu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/zayndu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zayndu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zayndu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zayndu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zayndu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}