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Candidate bibliography from the 2026-08 rforge sweep

Status: metadata-level candidates only — titles/DOIs verified in the search records (research/chia-seeds/), no full text read, nothing screened. Human screening (research/chia-seeds/queue.csv) and full-text acquisition approval come before any claim extraction. Full survey: research/chia-seeds/report.md.

Environment / yield

Influence of environment on growing period and yield, protein, oil and α-linolenic content of three chia (Salvia hispanica) — 10.1016/j.indcrop.2009.03.009 (2009)
Growth and yield of chia in the Mediterranean and desert climates of Chile — 10.4067/s0718-58392016000300001 (2016)
Growth, Yield Performance and Quality Parameters of Three Early Flowering Chia Genotypes — 10.3390/agriculture8100154 (2018)
The critical period for grain yield in chia — 10.1071/cp20432 (2021)

Planting date, density, geometry

Impact of Row Spacing, Sowing Density and Nitrogen Fertilization on Yield and Quality Traits of chia — 10.3390/agronomy9030136 (2019)
Sowing Date in Egypt Affects Chia Seed Yield and Quality — 10.2134/agronj2018.05.0324 (2018)
Effect of sowing date and water availability on growth of chia — 10.1371/journal.pone.0203116 (2018)
Chia production potential in western India influenced by planting date and crop geometry — 10.33545/2618060x.2024.v7.i1d.228 (2024)
Effect of Planting Density on Growth and Yield of Chia — 10.5455/jbau.168032 (2023)

Photoperiod & development

Developmental responses of chia to variations in thermo-photoperiod — 10.1071/cp19218 (2020)
Influence of sowing windows and genotypes on phenology and yield of chia — 10.14719/pst.15014 (2026)

Water / drought

Promising Bioregulators for Higher Water Productivity and Oil Quality of Chia under Deficit Irrigation — 10.3390/plants12030662 (2023)
Investigating morpho-physiological and biochemical traits of chia to drought stress — 10.1080/01140671.2024.2355958 (2024)
Effect of moisture stress on yield and quality of chia genotypes (2021; no DOI in sweep, title-only record)

Germination

Light regime and temperature on seed germination in Salvia hispanica — 10.4025/actasciagron.v38i4.30544 (2016)
Germination of chia seeds submitted to saline stress — 10.1590/1519-6984.192140 (2019)
Chia Seed Soaking, Germination, and Fatty Acid Behavior at Different Temperatures — 10.3390/agriculture11060498 (2021)

Fertilization

Inadequate Nitrogen Fertilization: Main Cause of the Low Seed Yield on the Chia Crop — 10.26717/bjstr.2018.02.000670 (2018)
Response of chia to sowing times and phosphorus rates over two crop cycles — 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05051 (2020)
Influence of nitrogen and spacing on growth and yield of chia in Meru county, Kenya — 10.58506/ajstss.v1i1.37 (2022)

Drying, storage, seed quality

Thermodynamic Properties and Kinetics of Drying Process of Chia Seeds — 10.3923/rjss.2016.36.41 (2016)
Effects of Drying, Packaging Conditions and Storage Time on Proximate Composition of Chia Seeds (2021; no DOI in sweep, title-only record)
Shotgun proteomics profiling of chia seeds — genotypic responses to viability loss — 10.3389/fpls.2024.1441234 (2024)

Still-needed source types (from the sweep gap analysis)

Extension: regional chia production bulletins (Australia, Argentina, Egypt, Morocco, North America) — not yet searched.
Growers/YouTube: manual chia harvest, threshing, winnowing, and cleaning demonstrations — academic literature is nearly empty on human-scale processing; grower sources and original experiments are expected to fill this.
Books: grain/seed crop handbooks.