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Influence of Seed Fortification Treatment with Inorganic Nutrients in
Jatropha Curcas
(L.)
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The seeds were removed at 16 h soaking duration in
equal volume and were dried back to their original
moisture content of 9% and seeds were sown in 100
seeds of 4 replicates in sand media under germination
room condition (25
℃
, 95 ± 2% RH) as well as raised
bed nursery along with water soaked and control
seeds.
3.3 Observations
After one month they were evaluated for their seed
quality characters viz., seedling per cent (%) i.e.
number of normal /healthy seedlings produced to the
total seeds sown, root length (cm), shoot length (cm)
and dry matter production /10 seedlings (g). The
vigour index values were computed adopting the
formula of Germination (%) × Total seedling length
(cm) as per Abdul-Baki and Anderson (1973) as these
values could express the seed quality characters
inclusive of seed germination and seedling vigour.
3.4 Statistical analysis
The data gathered were statistically scrutinized as per
Panse and Sukhathme, (1985) under F test of
significance for understanding the level of
significance among the seed treatment and seed
quality characters.
Acknowledgement
The authors are thankful to the National Oilseeds and
Vegetable Oils Development (NOVOD) Board,
Gurgaon, Haryana (India) for providing research grant
for the project.
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