Abstract
Maize crop is cultivated as the 3rd most important cereal crop after wheat and rice in Pakistan. As an exhaustive crop maize required all essential nutrients at all crop growth stages. Among essential nutrients nitrogen involved with the greenish colors of the vegetative parts, leaves production, branching and end up with drier biomass. Hydro-priming and osmo-priming are the commonly used priming techniques. In both techniques the seeds were soaked in treatments for overnight followed by air drying before sowing. To overcome several a-biotic stresses of field crops seed priming techniques have been used globally. The current study was planned to evaluate effect of different salt treatments on the growth traits of maize. Two maize verities Raka-Poshi and Pak-Afgoi were evaluated for the effect of salts stress on maize. Three salts ZnSO4, MgSO4 and NaCl were used @0.5 M and 0.25M solutions. Treatments used in the experiment were ZnSO4 (0.5M), ZnSO4 (0.25M), MgSO4 (0.5M), MgSO4 (0.25M), NaCl (0.5M), NaCl (0.25M), ZnSO4 (0.5M) + MgSO4 (0.5M), ZnSO4 (0.25M) + MgSO4 (0.5M), ZnSO4 (0.5M) + MgSO4 (0.25M), ZnSO4 (0.25M) + MgSO4 (0.25M), ZnSO4 (0.5M) + NaCl (0.5M), ZnSO4 0.25M + NaCl (0.5M), ZnSO4 (0.5M) + NaCl (0.25M), ZnSO4 (0.25M) + NaCl (0.25M), ZnSO4 (0.5M) + MgSO4 (0.5M) + NaCl (0.5M), ZnSO4 (0.25M) + MgSO4 (0.25M) + NaCl (0.25M). Maximum growth was observed in the plants that were primed with ZnSO4 used alone @ 0.5M and 0.25M or in combination with MgSO4. However, NaCl retard the growth of plant used alone or in combination with other salts. Seed priming by 30 mg/l salicylic acid solution not only found vital to enhance the uniform seed germination and rate of seed germination but also are environment friendly, simple, low cost low risk techniques and easily adoptable
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ZnSO4 alone at 0.5M and 0.25M produced maximum growth in maize.
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e0“Maximum growth was observed in the plants that were primed with ZnSO4 used alone @ 0.5M and 0.25M or in combination with MgSO4.”
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ZnSO4 combined with MgSO4 produced maximum growth in maize.
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e0“Maximum growth was observed in the plants that were primed with ZnSO4 used alone @ 0.5M and 0.25M or in combination with MgSO4.”
e1“growth traits of maize”
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NaCl alone retarded maize growth.
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e0“NaCl retard the growth of plant used alone or in combination with other salts.”
e1“growth traits of maize”
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NaCl combined with other salts retarded maize growth.
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- NaCl retard the growth of plant used alone or in combination with other saltse0
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- growth of plante0
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e0“NaCl retard the growth of plant used alone or in combination with other salts.”
e1“growth traits of maize”
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Priming with 30 mg/l salicylic acid enhanced uniform seed germination and its rate.
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- Seed priming by 30 mg/l salicylic acid solutione0
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- uniform seed germination and rate of seed germinatione0
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- enhancee0
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e0“Seed priming by 30 mg/l salicylic acid solution not only found vital to enhance the uniform seed germination and rate of seed germination”
e1“growth traits of maize”
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