Influence of different priming treatments on seedling parameters of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) seeds

The experiment was conducted in Post Graduate Laboratory, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, SHUATS, Allahabad, U.P. during rabi (2018), in order to standardize the best method of priming specific to chickpea. Three methods of priming viz., osmopriming, hydropriming, halopriming, and magneto priming were evaluated by screening a range of concentrations vizIt was found that all the priming methods showed significance difference with the control and treated with Calcium chloride ( ) at 1 % ( ) recorded significantly higher values for seedling characters, viz., seed germination percentage (95.67), speed of germination (33.75), root length (12.22), shoot length(15.03), seedling length (27.25), seedling fresh weight (1.08), seedling dry weight (0.23), seed vigour index-I (2606.89), seed vigour index-II (21.36),in compared with other treatments, and lowest recorded in control This study helps to improve quality of seeds with help of seed priming treatments which are effective and economic, nontoxic and ecofriendly sources.