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Effect of seed storage with zeolite beads for seed quality maintenance of vegetable crops

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Title Effect of seed storage with zeolite beads for seed quality maintenance of vegetable crops
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Creator Manimurugan, C
Nakul Gupta
Rajesh Kumar
T. Chaubey
Vikas Singh
P.M. Singh
Chandra Sekhar
J. Singh
 
Subject Vegetables
seed storage
zeolite beads
 
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Faulty storage and poor knowledge of seed storage directly affect the crop performance and yield. Therefore, an experiment was conducted at ICAR-IIVR, Varanasi to standardize the storage of vegetable seeds using the zeolite beads. Seeds of pumpkin cv. Kashi Harit, radish cv. Kashi Hans and vegetable cowpea cv. Kashi Nidhi were stored with two desiccants [zeolite beads and silica gel @1:10 (desiccant: seeds)] at two storage conditions [room temperature and cold storage (10°C)] in cloth bag, polythene bag and air tight container with and without the desiccants. Physiological seed quality parameters were observed once in four months (0, 4, 8, 12 month). In all the three crops, reduction in seed quality with increase of storage period was observed. Among the storage conditions, seed stored in cold storage recorded highest seed quality compared to the seeds stored at room temperature. At the same time, seeds stored with zeolite beads in room temperature recorded on par germination and vigour with seeds stored in cold storage. Among the storage containers (seeds with zeolite beads in air tight container, seed without zeolite beads in air tight container, seeds in cloth bag, seeds in polythene bag and seeds with silica gel in airtight container), seed stored with zeolite beads recorded significantly highest seed quality after 12 months of storage period. The performance was on par with the seeds stored in cold storage condition. In conclusion, after one year of storage, seeds stored with zeolite beads at room temperature recorded highest speed of germination in pumpkin, and radish. Issue of secondary dormancy was observed in cowpea. Other parameters such as germination (%) and vigour also recorded highest value when seeds were stored with zeolite beads. Therefore, it is recommended that seed storage with zeolite beads at farmer’s level to maintain the seed quality up to next growing season.
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Date 2022-02-11T05:35:56Z
2022-02-11T05:35:56Z
2021-12-15
 
Type Other
 
Identifier  Manimurugan, C., Nakul Gupta, Rajesh Kumar, T. Chaubey, Vikas Singh, P.M. Singh, Chandra Sekhar and J. Singh. 2021. Effect of seed storage with zeolite beads for seed quality maintenance of vegetable crops. In: Abstract book of International Conference on “Vegetable Research and Innovations for Nutrition, Entrepreneurship and Environment” (ICVEG-21) from 14-16th December 2021 at ICAR-IIVR, Varanasi, UP, India pp. 446
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/69762
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Indian Society of Vegetable Science, Varanasi