Sustainable Hydropriming Strategies to Enhance Seed Germination and Seedling Vigour in Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik)
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Sustainable Hydropriming Strategies to Enhance Seed Germination and Seedling Vigour in Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik)
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Creator |
A ANBALAGAN
SANGITA YADAV R CHOUDHARY MK SUSHMA D SIRI NANDINI A YADAV SHIV K YADAV |
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Seed priming, Lentil, Hydro priming, seed quality, seed germination and seedling vigour
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Description |
The quality and yield of an agriculture crop are highly dependent on uniform and rapid germination of the seeds. Pre-sowing hydropriming is one of the most suitable, reasonable, easily available, and highly costeffective environment friendly techniques for improving seed quality and enhanced seedling growth. Henceforth, a laboratory experiment was conducted to assess the effect of hydro-priming duration on germination and seedling growth of lentil. The experiment was laid out in two factor Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with three replications and five treatments including different hydro-priming durations (Control, Hydropriming for 12 hours,14 hours, 16 hours and 18 hours) in two varieties namely PDL 1 and IPL 316. Hydropriming seeds for 16 hours significantly improved their performance compared to non-primed seeds in both of these varieties tested. The results showed an increase in speed of germination by 53% and 69%, a boost in germination rate by 12.6% and 8.2%, and enhancements in Vigour Index I by 36% and 12%. Additionally, Vigour Index II increased by 27.8% and 7.4%.In both of these varieties, the highest seed quality parameters were recorded in the 16 hours of hydroprimed seeds whereas the lowest seed quality parameters were observed in non-primed seeds. Overall, from this experiment it was concluded that 16 hours of seed hydro-priming duration proved to be an effective method for enhancing seed germination and vigour.
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Indian Society of Seed Technology
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2024-10-28
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/SR/article/view/158729
10.56093/sr.v52i1.158729 |
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Seed Research; Vol. 52 No. 1 (2024): Seed Research; 9-14
0379-5594 |
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eng
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https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/SR/article/view/158729/56647
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Copyright (c) 2024 Seed Research
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