Claim · model-written summary
Cow urine priming was among the most effective treatments for maize seed germination and seedling traits.
- Treatment
- cow urinee0
- Outcome
- germination percentage, root and shoot lengths, and Seedling Vigor Indexe0
- Direction
- most effectivee0
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Verbatim
t0“hybrid maize”
e0“The study evaluated germination percentage, root and shoot lengths, and Seedling Vigor Index in treated seeds using the towel method, finding cow urine and GA3 seed priming treatments most effective.”
Title
Deepika Timsina; Santosh Marahatta Cogent Food & Agriculture 2024. doi:10.1080/23311932.2024.2415388
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect GA3 priming was among the most effective treatments for maize seed germination and seedling traits.
- Intervention effect Hydropriming significantly increased maize cob number and grain production in both years.
- Intervention effect Cow urine priming significantly increased maize cob number and grain production in both years.
- Intervention effect GA3 priming significantly increased maize cob number and grain production in both years.
- Observation Hydropriming yielded 7.63 t/ha in 2019.
- Observation Cow urine priming yielded 7.54 t/ha in 2019.
- Observation Hydropriming yielded 8.55 t/ha in 2020.
- Observation Cow urine priming yielded 8.31 t/ha in 2020.
- Intervention effect Hydropriming enhanced days to 80% emergence.
- Intervention effect Cow urine priming enhanced days to 80% emergence.
- Observation Hydropriming was described as practical and affordable compared with GA3.
- Observation Cow urine priming was described as practical and affordable compared with GA3.