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Effect of seed treatments and containers on the maintenance of germination and seedling vigour of COPH 2 pigeonpea hybrid and its parential seeds in storage

Volume : 91
Issue: Jan-mar
Pages: 135 - 139
Published: June 13, 2023
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Abstract


In the storage study, COPH 2 pigeonpea hybrid and its parental seeds dried to 8 per cent moisture, treated with chlorine based halogen mixture (calcium oxychloride:calcium carbonates:arappu leaf powder (Albizia amara) @ 5:4:1 ratio) @3 g kg of seeds and packed in high density polyvinyl bag maintained higher germination and seedling vigour during storage than control and carbaryl + bavistin treatments. Seeds of female parent could be stored safely upto 15, male parent for 24 and hybrid for 21 months, which indicated that male parent is a good storer, female parent is a poor storer and the hybrid behaved intermediary between male and female parents.

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135 - 139
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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COPH 2 pigeonpea hybrid and its parents Seed treatments Storage containers Vigour and viability.
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