Stevia is perennial herb belongs to asteraceae family. It is popularly known as sweet leaf, candy leaf, sweet herb and honey leaf which are used to treat diabetes to bring down glucose levels, enhance insulin secretion and in various pharmaceutical formulations. A laboratory experiment was conducted at University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot during 2019-2020 to assess the seed quality parameters of stevia by treating the seeds with different treatments. The experiment was laid out in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with ten treatments in four replications. The seeds of stevia treated with GA₃ at 10 ppm soaked for 12 hours had took minimum days for first seed germination (3.00 days), recorded maximum germination (62.25%), root length (10.30 mm), shoot length (14.15 mm), seedling vigour index (1522), seedling dry weight (2.90 mg per 10 seedlings) and field emergence (47.75%). The growth regulator GA₃ at 10 ppm found to be superior in improvement of seed quality parameters of stevia compared to other treatments.

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