Winter savory (Satureja montana L.) is an important medicinal, aromatic, and honey plant. In Croatia, it widely distributed along the Adriatic coast, where frequently exposed to droughts. First, winter natural population with highest germination across different drought treatments after hydropriming was selected. Nine hundred seeds from each of three populations (P1, P2, P3) were hydroprimed (d...

Temperature is a key factor influencing plant growth and productivity; however, temperature fluctuations can cause detrimental effects on crop growth. This study aimed to assess the effect of seed priming Camelina sativa L. under heat stress. Experimental treatments were comprised of; including, no-priming, hydropriming (distilled water priming), osmopriming (thiourea applications at 500 ppm), ...

Heat stress seriously affects the production of cool-season food legume crops such as garden peas. Seed priming is a widely used technique that increases germination and improves plant growth development, resulting in better field performance higher yield crops. In current study, we investigated three seed treatments—hydropriming (dH2O), osmopriming (2.2% w/v CaCl2), hormopriming (50 mg L?1 sal...

The maintenance of seed quality during the long-term conservation plant genetic resources is crucial for averting projected food crises that are linked to changing climate and rising world population. However, ageing-induced loss vigour viability storage remains an inevitable process compromises productivity in several orthodox-seeded crop species. Seed ageing under prolonged storage, which can...

Presoaking seeds in water (hydropriming) or a solution, usually of polyethylene glycol (PEG) various salts at low potential (osmopriming), has been demonstrated to improve the germination numerous species including vegetables (carrot, celery, leek, lettuce, tomato), floral plants (cyclamen, primrose, pansy) and others (sugar beet, rape, soybean, sunflower). This treatment allows stricto sensu o...