Influence of Different Pre-Sowing Seed Treatments on Germination and Early Growth Behavior of T. arjuna: A Potential Medicinal Tree

Mohd Rafi Wani¹ , Shyam Shanker Singh²

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Vol.4 , Issue.12 , pp.45-48, Dec-2018

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Online published on Dec 31, 2018

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Abstract :
The present investigation has been taken to achieve an improvement in the germination and growth attributes of Terminalia arjuna. Different treatments like gamma irradiation exposure at different levels, water soaking treatment, hot water treatment and gamma irradiation¬+presoaking treatments, were subjected to the air dried seeds of T. arjuna. The results were compared to untreated seeds (Control). Across all the treatments the germination of the seeds was increased significantly from 57% to 84.6% by 10KRF+presoaking treatment, showing an improvement of 27.6% over control. Other treatments also show an stimulation in germination like 10KRC (11.5%), 10KRF (18.5%), soaking (8%), 10KRC+presoaking (22.5%) and hot water (13%) over control respectively. 10KRF+presoaking treatment also recorded a maximum improvement in the growth attributes of T. arjuna. All the treatments proved successful in stimulating the rate of early growth in T. arjuna in contrast to control. Depending upon the availability of the different treatment sources, the enhancement of germination, growth along with plant metabolites and overcoming all the barriers including dormancy could be employed for improving the quality of planting stock of T. arjuna.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Terminalia arjuna, germination, gamma irradiations, water soaking

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