Seed ageing is an inevitable process that reduces seed quality during storage. When seeds deteriorate as a result of the lipid peroxidation process, it leads to produce toxic volatile organic compounds. These volatiles served indicator for viability stored seeds. With this background, study was conducted profile compounds emitted from rice Volatile profiling var. Co 51 done through Headspace-So...

In the recent years, nanotechnology has attained much attention in the every field of science. The synthesis, characterisation and applications of metallic nanoparticles (MNPs) have become an important branch of nanotechnology. In the current study, MNPs were synthesised through polyols process and applied in vitro to study their effect on medicinally important plant : Artemisia absinthium. The...

Allelopathy can be regarded as a component of biological control in which plants are used to reduce the vigour and development of other plants. Allelopathy refers to the direct or indirect chemical effects of one plant on the germination, growth, or development of neighbouring plants. The allelopathic effects of leaf extracts of Thymus vulgaris, Lavadula sp, Rosmarinus officinalis and Eucalyptu...

Seed ageing during storage is one of the main causes of reduction in seed quality and this results in loss of vigour and failure to thrive. Finding appropriate storage conditions to ameliorate deterioration due to ageing is, therefore, essential. Ultrastructural changes in cellular organelles during storage and seed germination rates are valuable indices of damage that occurs during seed ageing...

Background: Weeds are primary factors that adversely affect growth, yield and seed quality of summer green gram, which can be minimized with adoption proper weed management practices. This field experiment was conducted to find out the effective practice in gram (Vigna radiata) under zero tillage condition. Methods: In this field-laboratory investigation during season 2019 on different herbicid...

In these studies, the physical and physiological seed properties seedling's vigour in five ZP maize hybrids (ZP1, ZP2, ZP3, ZP4 ZP5) were investigated. Hybrid was divided into small (SF) large fractions (LF) The hybrid combination size did not significantly (p ≥ 0.05) affect germination. Width, thickness, length, weight, dead seeds, abnormal seedling, stem root growth fresh seedling weight infl...