Effect of seed priming on yield and yield components of soybean

Abstract

The results exhibited that seeds primed with CaCl2@ 1% (T3) and GA3 @ 500ppm (T4) recorded significantly higher\rgermination percentage i.e. 84.67 per cent and 83.33 per cent, respectively over the untreated control T1(76.00%). Treatment\rT3 recorded higher number of initial plant stand (117 plants), followed by treatment T4 (111 plants) and treatment T5 (111\rplants). This may likely contributed for boosting up economic yield in soybean cultivar, JS-335. The seed priming\rsignificantly influenced the seed yield and yield contributing characters of soybean. Highest value for seed yield per\rhectare was recorded by treatment T3CaCl2 @ 1% (20.12 qt/ha) followed by treatment T4- GA3 @ 50 ppm (19.02 qt/ha), T5-\rKNO3 @1% (18.35 qt/ ha). All other treatments recorded higher yield than untreated control (14.05 qt/ha) showing to the\rcorresponding favourable improvement in number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, test weight (g), seed yield\rper plot (g), seed yield per Ha (q).