How to detrmine water contents in germinating seeds?

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Gel electrophoresis, RNA degradation, RNA extraction from fresh tissue

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I want to do RF sputtering of ITO on glass substrate using magnetron sputtering. what thickness do i need to make it good conductive layer to use it for PSC. Moreover, whats about thickness of...

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How to grow E.coli on the low salt LB agar plate with 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin?

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OpenBCI eeg--has anyone used them?

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1 nm thick MgO thin-film to be deposited on Si wafer using thermal evaporation. What will be the optimum deposition conditions?

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How to eliminate Steady state error from Reinforcement learning genetic algorithm code?

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Recalcitrant seed short-mid storage method?

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Is there a suitable way to confine cell attachment area inside a multi-well plate?

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Dealing with BMDM seeding and RNA extraction ?

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Are the topics below viable research in plant biotechnology?

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Abdenour Kheloufi

Dear Maria,

I hope this pdf could help you.

https://www.seedtest.org/upload/cms/user/GRINDINGINISTAMOISTURETESTING2008-09-14.pdf

Andrew Paul McKenzie Pegman

You need to subtract dry biomass weight from fresh weight

Bozena Sera

Dr. Pegman is right, this is a reliable proven method.

Henry Onyebuchi Okonkwo

I equally think Dr. Pegman's suggested method is right.