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assuming undocumented purity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which planting lot, accession or documented cultivar produced this plant or harvest?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "source-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "Where could mixing during growing, harvest, cleaning or storage have interrupted that connection?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "source-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cumin-development-and-propagation", "name": "Cumin development and propagation", "description": "Track establishment and reproductive development through production of the next planting generation.", "rationale": "Planting fitness, successful flowering and harvest maturity cannot be inferred from one another.", "layers": [ { "id": "establishment-capacity", "name": "Establishment capacity", "description": "Assess whether an identified cumin lot can establish plants under specified conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "germination-and-emergence", "name": "Germination and emergence", "description": "Separate 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"kind": "measurement", "id": "fruit-development-status-q01" }, { "text": "What observed fruit characteristics support the proposed maturity assessment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "fruit-development-status-q02" }, { "text": "Does uneven development require another inspection or separate harvest groups?", "kind": "action", "id": "fruit-development-status-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cumin-growing-condition", "name": "Cumin growing condition", "description": "Relate observed cumin performance to exposure, symptoms and diagnostic evidence.", "rationale": "An agent needs stage-specific evidence to distinguish environmental stress from biological damage before acting.", "layers": [ { "id": "stage-specific-exposure", "name": "Stage-specific exposure", "description": "Interpret growing conditions against observed establishment and reproductive development.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposure-and-response", "name": "Exposure and response", "description": "Connect measured weather and 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