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Pre-Sowing Seed Hardening Enhancement Treatment on Seed Quality and Seed Yield in Rice ADT 36


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Rice is one of the main staple food of man and is grown in almost all the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. An experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of pre-sowing seed hardening treatment with different chemicals such as 1% CaCl2, 1% KCl, 1% KNO3 and 1% NaCl and organics such as 10% cow dung and 3% panchagavya on seed quality and seed yield in rice cv. ADT 36. In general seed hardening treatment of rice before sowing significantly increased the seed quality characteristics and yield attributing characters when compared to untreated seeds. From the result, it was observed that 1% CaCl2 seed hardening treatment improved the seed quality characters such as germination percentage, speed of germination, shoot length, ischolar_main length, seedling length, dry matter production, vigour index and yield attributing characters such as number of productive tillers per plant, number of seeds per panicle and seed yield per plant. Hence, rice seeds hardened with 1% CaCl2 may be recommended to get higher seed yield and seed quality.

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Rice, Seed Hardening, CaCl2, Seed Quality, Seed Yield.
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T. Prabhu
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, Chidambaram (T.N.), India
P. Satheesh Kumar
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, Chidambaram (T.N.), India
K. Saravanan
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, Chidambaram (T.N.), India
A. Kamaraj
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, Chidambaram (T.N.), India

Abstract


Rice is one of the main staple food of man and is grown in almost all the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. An experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of pre-sowing seed hardening treatment with different chemicals such as 1% CaCl2, 1% KCl, 1% KNO3 and 1% NaCl and organics such as 10% cow dung and 3% panchagavya on seed quality and seed yield in rice cv. ADT 36. In general seed hardening treatment of rice before sowing significantly increased the seed quality characteristics and yield attributing characters when compared to untreated seeds. From the result, it was observed that 1% CaCl2 seed hardening treatment improved the seed quality characters such as germination percentage, speed of germination, shoot length, ischolar_main length, seedling length, dry matter production, vigour index and yield attributing characters such as number of productive tillers per plant, number of seeds per panicle and seed yield per plant. Hence, rice seeds hardened with 1% CaCl2 may be recommended to get higher seed yield and seed quality.

Keywords


Rice, Seed Hardening, CaCl2, Seed Quality, Seed Yield.

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