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Drop baggie filled with bean
seeds 10-15 times to simulate poor mechanical handling.
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Create 1% sodium hypochlorite
solution
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Soak both damaged and undamaged seeds in a 1% hypoclorite solution.
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Undamaged soybean
seeds after soaking
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Mechanically damaged soybean
seeds
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