Seed Priming: A Critical Review

V. A. Pawar¹ , S. L. Laware²

1. Department of Botany, Fergusson College, Pune, Savitribai Phule Pune University (MS), India.
2. Department of Botany, Arts, Commerce and Science College, Sonai, Savitribai Phule Pune University (MS), India.

Section:Review Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.5 , Issue.5 , pp.94-101, Oct-2018

CrossRef-DOI:   https://doi.org/10.26438/ijsrbs/v5i5.94101

Online published on Oct 31, 2018

Copyright © V. A. Pawar, S. L. Laware . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
India being an agricultural country, more than 80% population of rural India depends on agriculture and its associated activities for their living. To satisfy the requirements of Indian population, there is need for adequate crop yield. But due to urbanisation, pollution, biotic and abiotic stresses, unavailability of micronutrients etc. there are various constraints on seed germination and crop yield. The present review highlights the problems associated with germination and growth of plants. It discusses on seed priming technology that can synchronise seed germination and improve vigour, leading to better crop establishment and yield. Seed priming stimulates the processes involved in metabolism which prevents seed deterioration, breaks dormancy and induces systemic resistance against biotic and abiotic stresses. It explains physiological and biochemical changes occurring in seeds on priming. Extensive study using different seed priming techniques viz. hydro-priming, halo-priming, osmo-priming, matrix priming, osmohardening, on-farm priming, hormone priming, nutripriming, biopriming nanoparticle priming etc. has been carried out. Studying the use of different techniques and their need put an insight in the new research area of bionanoseed priming produced by amalgamating nanofertilisers and plant growth promoting rhizobacterias, to improve the productivity of crops.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Seed priming, Priming techniques, Germination, Crop establishment

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