Seed treatment

Seed treatment

In agriculture, a seed treatment or seed dressing is a chemical, typically antimicrobial or fungidal, with which seeds are treated (or "dressed") prior to planting. One such seed dressing, Imidacloprid, from the Neonicotinoid family of insecticides, is controversial and has been banned in France, due to that government's belief that the chemical is implicated in recent dramatic drops in bee counts, and possibly in the so-called Colony Collapse Disorder.


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