Determination of Important Physical Properties and Water Absorption Capacity of Short Type Improved Paddy Varieties of Sri Lanka

dc.contributor.author	Thilakarathna, G.C.
dc.contributor.author	Navarathne, S.B.
dc.contributor.author	Wickramasinghe, I.
dc.date.accessioned	2017-11-07T03:29:09Z
dc.date.available	2017-11-07T03:29:09Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.identifier.citation	Thilakarathna, G.C., Navarathne, S.B., Wickramasinghe, I. (2015). "Determination of Important Physical Properties and Water Absorption Capacity of Short Type Improved Paddy Varieties of Sri Lanka", International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology, Vol.2 (5), pp. 19-23	en_US, si_LK
dc.identifier.issn	2349-6002
dc.identifier.uri	http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/6557
dc.description.abstract	Attached	en_US, si_LK
dc.description.abstract	Three popular paddy varieties in Sri Lanka, BG358, BG360 and BW367, were experimented in order to determine the important physical properties and water absorption capacities. Axial dimensions (length, width, and thickness), 1000 grain mass, geometrical mean diameter, surface area, volume, sphericity and aspect ratio were determined as the physical properties of paddy varieties. According to the research outcome, most of physicalproperties were significantly different (p<0.05) among the varieties while some similarities (p>0.05) were also observed. To investigate the water absorption capacity of different paddy varieties in terms of moisture gain, the paddy varieties were immersed in hot water at 70 C for 5 hours. Samples were drawn from respective paddy variety for every 30minutes in order to measure the moisture absorption. According to the results, during the initial stage of soaking, all paddy varieties illustrated rapid moisture increment. Afterward the rate of moisture in...
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US, si_LK
dc.publisher	International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology	en_US, si_LK
dc.subject	Improved paddy varieties	en_US, si_LK
dc.subject	Moisture absorption capacity	en_US, si_LK
dc.subject	Moisture content	en_US, si_LK
dc.subject	Soaking time	en_US, si_LK
dc.subject	Physical parameters	en_US, si_LK
dc.subject	Saturation point	en_US, si_LK
dc.title	Determination of Important Physical Properties and Water Absorption Capacity of Short Type Improved Paddy Varieties of Sri Lanka	en_US, si_LK
dc.type	Article	en_US, si_LK