PLATE 2 
Kernels of Goens (Red Chaff) wheat (A) and Minturki wheat (B) with seed 
coats broken over the embryo in threshing. (Photo. X 6.) 
Effects of the modified hot-water treatment on seeds with coats unbroken 
and broken over the embryo. 
C. —Fifty plants from 50 hand-threshed seeds of Poole wheat, the seed coats 
of which were slit over the embryo with a needle, but seeds not treated. 
D. —Zero plants from 50 hand-threshed seeds of the same Poole wheat slit 
over the embryo with a needle and seeds treated. 
