Vol. 12, Issue 7 (2023)

Author(s):
Maneesh Kumar, Mohammad Amir, Rishabh Kumar Singh and Rohit Kumar

Abstract:
Seed priming of simple cost-effective technique which can be easily adopted by the farmers to improve the plant behavior in field. The experiment was conducted at CSUA&T Oil Seed Farm, Kalyanpur, Kanpur in split plot designs using two field pea varieties KPMR-522 and KPMR-400 Rabi season 2019-20 and 2020-21. Observation recorded like Germination (%), Seed Vigour-I, Seed Vigour-II, Field emergence and Seed viability. The results were observed seed priming significantly increased all the characters with treatment of in both of varieties KPMR-522, KPMR-400. Conclude that the overall finding of experiment Seed coating (on hydro-primed seeds) with Drought Alleviating Bacteria + Bio-NPK (on hydroprimed seeds for 8 hours and then air dried for 48 hours), is best performing combination.