National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Germination and Seedling emergence are the important phases in plant life cycle. Exploring ways to achieve uniformity and synchrony of plant growth under stress conditions is important. This prompted to assess the potential of pre-sowing seed treatments in improving germination and early seedling growth of Chickpea. Thus, an investigation was carried out to examine the effect of seed hardening treatments on seed quality on Chickpea at Post Graduate Laboratory and Field Experimentation Centre of Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and sciences, Allahabad (U.P.). Seeds were hardened with different solutions viz., Control, distilled water, 2% CaCl2, 2% KH2Po4, 1% KNO3, 2%Kcl, 2% ZnSo4, 200ppm salicylic acid, 200 ppm GA3, 2% MgSo4, 5% Neem leaf extract, 5% tulsi leaf extract and 5% Aloevera leaf extract were taken and in their solutions seeds were hydrated for 12 hours and then dried back to their original moisture content. The results showed that seed hardening treatment of chickpea before sowing significantly increased the seed quality characteristics. The study revealed that seed hardened with 2% CaCl2 (T2) showed better performance in maximum seed quality parameters such as Germination percentage, Speed of germination, Coefficient of velocity of germination, Germination index, Shoot length, Root length, Seedling length, Seedling fresh weight, Seedling dry weight, Seedling vigour index and low Mean germination time followed by KNO3 @ 1% and 5% Neem leaf extract when compared to other treatments and control on the basis of lab studies. However, Neem leaf extract and KNO3 is at par with CaCl2. Hence, seed hardening can be adopted as a regular practice to boost the yield of rainfed crops. It also helped to improve the seedling character and growth with the help of seed Hardening treatments which are cost effective, economic, non-toxic and from eco-friendly sources.
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