Standardization of Different Pre-sowing Seed Treatments on Growth, Yield and Yield Attributing Traits of Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) var. DBW-187
Sikhinam Gopinath *
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Naini Agriculture Institute, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj-211007, India.
Bineeta M. Bara
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Naini Agriculture Institute, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj-211007, India.
Prashanth Kumar Rai
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Naini Agriculture Institute, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj-211007, India.
Abishek Kumar Pal
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Naini Agriculture Institute, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj-211007, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The present study entitled, “Standardization of different pre-sowing seed treatments on growth, yield and yield attributing traits of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) var. DBW-187.” was carried out to assess the effect of electric priming, magnetic priming and bio-filming of varying stickers with polyvinyl glycol, methyl cellulose and alginate with an objective during Rabi 2021-2022 to find the promising pre-sowing treatment for wheat. The results indicated that all treatment recorded significant variation for growth and yield attributes that were studied and performed well to the untreated control (T0). The treatment T6- Electric priming @200m Amp for 60 sec. significantly recorded the field emergence of 94.00 %, 9.59 tillers per plant, test weight of 42.49 g, seed yield of 7.82 g per plant, seed yield of 477.22 g per plot, seed yield of 34.77q per hectare, 56.71q biological yield per hectare, 61.30% of harvest index, B:C ratio of 1.14 with gross returns of 69,540.00/- and net returns of 37,055/- respectively and found to be promising and can be suggested for commercial cultivation.
Keywords: Alginate, electric priming, magnetic priming, methyl cellulose and polyvinyl glycol