100 Seed Counter Designed for Mungbean (<I>Vigna radiata</I> (L.) Wilczek) and for Soybean (<I>Glycine max</I> (L.) Merr.)

Abstract

Seed weight was reported as the weight per 1,000 seeds of working sample. Procedure for 1,000 seed's weight determination starting from counting, eight replicates, each of 100 seeds followed by weighing and recording each replicate in grams, calculate the average weight of 1,000 seeds and multiplied by 10. Following this procedure, seed technologist should concentrate on the seed sample and counting 100 seeds by hand which take times and causing more erratum due to longer practices. By 100 seed counter designed for mungbean and for soybean make the procedure of 100 seed determination easy and saving times. Determination of 100 seed weight by this counter required an average of 10.5 and 23.4 seconds compared to 45 and 43.7 seconds by hand counting for mungbean and soybean, respectively.