use of plant growth promoting bacteria (pgpb) and high quality of seed as agricultural inputs play important roles in sustainable crop production. to study the effects of different levels of seed aging and pgpb's application on field emergence, seedling establishment and yield of two red kidney bean cultivars in field conditions, an experiment was carried out as factorial based in a rcbd d...

Seeds of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris cv. Vernel) were collected throughout their development on the plant and dried at 15 degrees C and 75% relative humidity to a final moisture content of about 16% (fresh weight basis) to determine whether the onset of tolerance to this drying condition was related to changes in soluble sugars or the activities of the main antioxidant enzymes, namely superoxide d...

Selecting seeds with high vigour eminently affects initial plant growth and determines stand. Various tests including electrical conductivity (EC), radicle emergence counts (RE), standard germination (SG) were used to assess the of eleven lentils (Lens culinaris L.) seed lots. Lentil lots over 75% normal germination, germinated use an ISTA test. The (2 mm) was tallied at constant intervals from...

The application of short-term stresses or elicitors in seedlings or embryos with high metabolic activity might increase multi-adversity tolerance. Beans seeds cv. IAC-Carioca were exposed to cold shock temperatures (S 7°C 24h) and salicylic acid (SA 0.01 mM 48h) during imbibition to study physiological responses to osmotic stress physiological responses. The seeds were soaked in paper towel imb...

Background: Accelerated ageing causes seeds to deteriorate that affect the seed quality of groundnut seeds. Seed deterioration will cause metabolic and chemical changes viz., lipid peroxidation autoxidation, leading loss membrane integrity enzyme activities. These are associated with reduced germination vigour. Methods: The cv. VRI 8 was subjected for accelerated at 40oC 100% RH upto 11 days ev...

Study was undergone to evaluate the efficacy of floatation grading on seeds Amaranthus Cv. PLR 1 using organic solvents in Department Seed Science and Technology, TNAU, Coimbatore during March 2023.The experiment laid out Completely Randomized Design with four replications each five treatments. We considered viz., Acetone, Methanol, Dichloromethane Petroleum Ether along water observed seed reco...

Aim: To study the association between characters through correlation and path analysis for 30 elite maize lines
 Study Design: Randomized Block Design with three replications.
 Place Duration of Study: The experiment was conducted at Seed Research Technology Centre Rabi 2020-21.
 Methodology: Character studies will help to assess relationship yield its contributing traits enhanci...