Short Communication EFFECT OF SOME INDIGENOUS PLANT EXTRACTS ON THE GERMINATION OF WHEAT SEEDS

An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of some indigenous plant extracts on the germination of wheat seeds. Six locally available indigenous plants namely. Bazna (Zanthoxylum rhetsa Roxb.), Ghora-neem (Melia sempervirens L.), Hijal (Bartingtonia acutangula L.), Karanja (Pongamia pinnata L.), Mahogoni (Swietenia mahagoni L.) and -Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) were evaluated. Leaf and seed extracts of plants were prepared by using acetone, methanol and water as solvents. Among the treated wheat seeds. the highest germination was found in Mahogoni treated wheat seeds (95.3711V6) and the lowest in Hijal treated wheat seeds (93.88%). The extracts of all the plants did not show any adverse effect on the germination of treated wheat seeds up to 90 days of treatments.