National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
A nursery experiment was carried out to study the effect of growing media, seed treatments on seed germination and seedling vigour of Sarpagandha. The experiment was conducted in a Factorial Completely Randomized Design with 18 treatment combinations and 3 replications. The treatment combinations consists of 2 types of growing media (M1: Garden soil + FYM + Sand @2:1:1 and M2: Coco peat + Vermiculite + Perlite @2:1:1) and 9 seed treatments (C1: GA3 50 ppm, C2: GA3 100 ppm, C3: GA3 150 ppm, C4: NaCl 1%, C5: NaCl 2%, C6: Acid scarification by conc. sulphuric acid, C7:Hot water treatment, C8: Pre-soaking in tap water, C9: Control(without treatment). The results revealed that the Sarpagandha seeds treated with GA3 @ 150 ppm and sown in garden soil + FYM + sand @2:1:1 resulted maximum germination percentage(39.00 %), root diameter (2.82 mm), dry weight of shoot (2.11 g), dry weight of root (1.77 g) and survival percentage of seedlings(88.37). The seeds treated with GA3 @ 150 ppm and sown in garden soil + FYM + sand @ 2:1:1 also realized maximum gross, net return with B: C. The minimum values in respect of the above parameters were obtained with seeds sown in coco peat + vermiculite + perlite without any treatment.
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