Assessment of Seed Enhancement Treatments on Relative Storability of Wheat Grain Produced under Zero Tillage Technique comprises Conventional Tillage

Author: Prabhat Kumar, Dayanidhi Chaubey, Randhir Kumar and Sanjay Kumar Sharma

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Abstract

The most initial critical stage of crop grow this germination of seeds and uniform plant population stand in the field that determine the yield potential. Productivity is especially frequently hampered under suboptimal situation which primarily attributed to uneven or poor germination and have asynchronous seedling emergence. Seed produced under zero tillage technique leads to moisture stress as well as temperature stress in the field condition which might reflect the vigour potential of seed. It has been notice that stress (due to moisture) has deleterious consequence effects on germination and viability of seeds. The relative storability of seed lot harvested from two different tillage condition sown after the seed enhancement treatments was assessed by the standard germination, vigour indices and electrical conductivity after six months of storage in the gunny bag under ambient condition. Seed vigour potential and electrical conductivity of seed lot produced under zero tillage techn

Keywords

Moisture stress, Seedling emergence, Seed priming, Viability.

Conclusion

Seed vigour potential of seed lot produced under zero tillage technique was comparatively inferior to that of normal tillage. Further seed enhancement treatment improves the seed vigour potential in both the tillage techniques. Almost all the treatment has been improved seed vigour potential significantly over control. Among all the treatments, KNO3 (2.0 %) was found to be best which was also at par with KNO3 (2.0 %) in succession with seed dressing with Bavistin in both the tillage condition.

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Kumar, P., Chaubey, D., Kumar, R. and Sharma, S.K. (2021). Assessment of seed enhancement treatments on relative storability of wheat grain produced under zero tillage technique comprises conventional tillage. Biological Forum – An International Journal