Impact of Seed Invigoration with Panchagavya, Beejamrutha on Seed Quality Parameters in Bitter Gourd (Memordica charantia) under Salinity Conditions

Author: Poonam Dilip Patil, Arun Kumar Chaurasia, Pradeep K. Shukla, Shivani Dubey and Anchal Kumari

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Abstract

High salt conditions can inhibit seed germination and seedling growth in Bitter gourd. The present study was carried out to assess the effect of organic seed treatments on seed quality parameters of bitter gourd (Memordica charantia L.) under increased salinity concentrations. The study was carried out in the seed testing laboratory of Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, SHUATS, Prayagraj with the treatments as Panchagavya, Jeevamrutham, Beejamrutha, Coconut water and Aloevera extract of varying concentrations under salinity levels of 0 mM, 150mM and 250 mM NaCl. The results indicated that increased levels of salinity concentrations have negative impact on quality parameters of bitter gourd. Soil salinity is the major abiotic factor that hinders the growth and establishment of the seedling. Priming enhances the quality parameters of the seedling up to certain salinity concentrations depending up on the type of primer and the dosage used for priming; beyond which it may be in eff

Keywords

Bitter gourd, Panchagvaya, Bheejamruth, Jeevamruth, Coconut water and Aloevera extract.

Conclusion

The results indicates that priming is an alternate strategy to maintain the vigour of a seed under adverse abiotic environmental factors. The performance of untreated control, aloevera extract and coconut water had not shown any significant impact on the quality parameters of bitter gourd with the increased salinity levels. Organic priming with Panchagavya at 6% for 12 hrs at 0mM NaCl stress levels found to be promising with germination of 79.50%, 34.775 cm seedling length, 8.935 g fresh weight, 1.015 g dry weight, 2762.99 seedling vigour index-i and 80.605 vigour index-ii. From the result, it can be concluded that seed priming is an alternate strategy to develop healthy seedlings under salinity conditions to a particular extent; priming with organics, Panchagavya and Jeevamrutha were found promising and can be suggested for commercial cultivation.

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Patil, P.D., Chaurasia, A.K., Shukla, P.K., Dubey, S. and Kumari, A. (2021). Impact of Seed Invigoration with Panchagavya, Beejamrutha on Seed Quality Parameters in Bitter Gourd (Memordica charantia) under Salinity Conditions. Biological Forum – An Int