Vol. 12, Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
DM Parmar and NM Gohel

Abstract:
An experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of culture filtrate of seed mycoflora on seed health regarding seed germination, seedling length and seedling vigour in fennel cultivars. Five different fennel varieties viz., GF 2, GF 11, GF 12, AF 1 and AF 2 were used. The seed germination, seedling length and seedling vigour index-I (SVI-I) were drastically reduced by culture filtrate of all isolated seed mycoflora in all five fennel cultivars. Seeds inoculated with culture filtrate of M. phaseolina showed the lowest germination, seedling length and seedling vigour index-I in all cultivars.