Effect of Priming with Organics and Botanicals on Seed Quality Parameters of Greengram (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek) var. samrat under Salinity Stress conditions

Author: Vangala Navya, Arun Kumar Chaurasia, Anita Kerketta, Anand Warghat and Patti Tejasree

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Abstract

Food legumes constitute important ingredient of Indian diet as they supply nutrients and essential amino acids. Moong bean is one among the important food legumes with cultivated acreage area of around three million hectares. Legumes are highly sensitive to the abiotic factors like temperature, nutrient deficiency, moisture stress and salinity stress conditions. Keeping this in view, the present study was carried out in seed testing laboratory of the department of genetics and plant breeding, SHUATS, Prayagraj. Seed priming with organics panchagvya and bheejamrutha and botanicals sea weed extract and curry leaf extract was assessed for seed quality parameters under the various salinity stress conditions of 0mM, 150mM and 250 mM on samrat variety of greengram. Seed priming under various salinity stress conditions with the above cited treatments recorded significant variation with the untreated control. The treatment combination T2S0- Panchagavya at 9% for 12 hrs at 0mM NaCl stress level

Keywords

Botanicals, Moisture stress, Organics, Priming and Salinity stress.

Conclusion

The results depicts that the performance of untreated control and treatments gradually reduced with the increased salinity stress concentrations; seed priming favors for proper germination and better seedling establishment under salinity stress conditions to a certain extent depending on type of treatment and its dosage. Interaction of T2S0- Panchagavya at 9% for 12 hrs at 0mM NaCl stress levels found to be promising with germination of 86.250%, 36.775 cm seedling length, 2.150 g fresh weight, 0.560 g dry weight, 2923.85 seedling vigour index-i and 48.298 vigour index-ii and can be recommended as a seed primer in green gram under salinity stress conditions.

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Navya, V., Chaurasia, A.K., Kerketta, A., Warghat, A. and Tejasree, P. (2021). Effect of Priming with Organics and Botanicals on Seed Quality Parameters of Greengram (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek) var. samrat under Salinity Stress conditions. Biological Forum