Enhancing seed germination and vigor of Chickpea by using potential and effective strains of Trichoderma Species

Kumar, V. and Shahid, M. and Srivastava, M. and Singh, A. and Pandey, S. and Sharma, A. (2014) Enhancing seed germination and vigor of Chickpea by using potential and effective strains of Trichoderma Species. Virology & Mycology, 3 (2). pp. 1-3.

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Abstract

In this study, potential and effective strains of Trichoderma such as T. harzianum (Th. Azad) and T. viride (01PP) have been investigated and their effect of pre sowing seed treatment on germination, seedling establishment, seedling dry weight and vigour in chickpea genotype (Radhey) was observed. The different pre sowing seed treatments showed different responses against all seven seed quality parameters. Chickpea seeds were treated with different concentrations of Trichoderma bioformulation such as 5%, 10%, 20% gm/kg seed followed by treatment with 0.2% Bavistin. As a result, the percentage of seed germination was found to be higher in T. harzianum (Th. azad) & Trichoderma viride (01PP) treated seeds with 5% bioformulation as compared to the other concentrations. Various attributes with their observations include seed germination (92% and 90%), root length (12.38 and 12.19 cm) shoot length (4.97 and 4.32 cm) seedling length (17.38 and 16.50 cm), dry weight (1.19 and 1.88 cm), vigour index I (5197.12 and 1485) and vigour index II (109.48 and 169.20). Among all treatments, control showed the poorest performance for all seven seed quality attributes.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Germination; Trichoderma; Vigour; Chickpea
Author Affiliation: Biocontrol Laboratory, Department of Plant Pathology, Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur, U.P., India
Subjects: Crop Improvement
Divisions: Chickpea
Depositing User: Mr T L Gautham
Date Deposited: 23 Aug 2016 07:55
Last Modified: 23 Aug 2016 07:55
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/14311

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