Drought, salinization and heavy metal pollution of soils are main stress factors with an increasing impact on the deterioration soil quality, yield crop quality. Seed priming shows good results in improving seed germination, seedling growth plant development. Proline (Pro) metyl jasmonate (MeJA) show stimulating activity help plants overcome stress. The study investigated effect Pro, MeJA hydro...

Salinity is one of the striking problems in agricultural production many parts world. Seed germination and seedling growth are two critical stages for establishment crops generally most sensitive to salt stress. The present study aimed at evaluating initial pepper seedlings produced from seeds under different soaking times NaCl solutions. experiment was carried out a completely randomized desig...

The study was conducted on six barley varieties viz. BH 885, 946, 393, 902, DWRB 92 and 101 at CCS HAU, Hisar during 2020-21. results revealed that maximum catalase activity (243.168 157.981umoles/g FW), peroxidase (22.33 35.03 units/g superoxide (22.03 nmoles/g FW) dehydrogenase (0.213 0.245 OD/g/ml) were estimated in the seeds primed with ZnO NPs @ 100ppm cloth polythene bag, respectively. Am...

Purpose: The study aimed to overcome the seed dormancy of Datura stramonium L. by chemical scarification, pre-chilling, and different gibberellic acid (GA3) levels.
 Materials Methods: seeds were prechilled at 4°C 10°C for 7 days treated with sulfuric (97-98% H2SO4) 15 minutes, increasing doses GA3 (250, 500, 1000 ppm). Distilled water hydration untreated served as a control.
 Results...