PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dried vegetable seed having disease resistance, high germination rate and growth potential and long life.SOLUTION: The dried vegetable seed having a germination rate of &ge50% even after storage of &ge1 year at normal temperature is produced by optionally enclosing a specimen seed with a moisture-absorbing and/or moisture-permeating porous soft sheet, surrounding the outer circumference of the porous soft sheet with a desiccant and/or a porous material having moisture permeability, hygroscopicity and heat-resistance, and drying the specimen by microwave irradiation.COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】耐病性があり、発芽率が高く、成長性が高く、さらに寿命が長い乾燥した植物の種子の提供。【解決手段】試料を吸湿性あるいは/また透湿性の多孔質柔軟シートで囲むか又は囲まずに、該多孔質柔軟シートの外周を乾燥剤及び/又は透湿性、吸湿性及び耐熱性を有する多孔性材料で囲み、マイクロ波を照射することにより乾燥させた、常温で1年以上保存した後も50%以上の発芽率を有する植物の乾燥種子。【選択図】なし