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Dormancy and Germination of a few Crop Seeds

Volume : 41
Issue: Apr-apr
Pages: 111 - 118
Published: November 07, 2023
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Abstract


The importance of "good seed" is well realised in Agriculture. Good seeds are those in which every seed is capable of giving rise to a healthy plant of the kind, when placed under suitable conditions of growth. The quality of good seed is dependent upon a number of factors, such as the maturity of the seeds, purity, the methods of storage adopted, the period of storage after harvest, the age of the seed and the incidence of pests and diseases during storage. For the determination of the quality of the seed and arriving at its real value two important factors namely (i) Purity and (ii) Viability are considered. The data on germination and dormancy both published and unpublished supplied by the various Crop Specialists of the Madras Agricultural Department are summarised in this article.

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111 - 118
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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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