Influence of Organic Seed Priming on Seed Quality Parameters of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.)

Author: Poola Harshavardhini, Prashant Kumar Rai, Abhinav Dayal and Prashant Ankur Jain

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Abstract

The current experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of organic and botanical treatments on seed quality parameters of cowpea under simulated environmental conditions. An experiment was conducted in 2021 at Postgraduate seed testing laboratory, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Naini Agriculture Institute, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj. The Cowpea cultivar Kashi Kanchan seeds were used for priming. Organic treatments are designated as Panchagavya 2%, 4%, 6%, 8%, Jeevamruth 1%, 3%, 5%, 7% botanical treatments are Curry leaf extract 5%, Moringa leaf extract 5%, Seaweed extract 5% are used as treatment for duration of 10 hours respectively. The results were revealed that among all the treatments treatment T11 seaweed extract 5% was found to be best in the germination percentage, root length, shoot length, seedlings length, seed vigour index-I, seed vigour index–II, because it contains multiple growth regulators such as

Keywords

Botanical, Cowpea, Organic, Quality parameters, Seed Priming, Treatments.

Conclusion

Based on the positive results the overall performance under study judge T11-seaweed extract 5% treatment was found to be the best of all treatments, followed by T10 moringa leaf extract 5% for 10 hours germination percentage, root length, shoot increased length, seedling length index, seed energy index -I, seed vigour Index-II.

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Harshavardhini, P., Rai, P.K., Dayal, A. and Jain, P.A. (2021). Influence of Organic Seed Priming on Seed Quality Parameters of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.). Biological Forum – An International Journal, 13(3): 497-500.