Vol. 6, Issue 5 (2018)
Effect of magnetic and electric field seed treatment on the seedling attributes of brinjal (Solanum melongena) seeds
Author(s): GBN Jyothi, Prashant Kumar Rai, Saritha Khnadka and D Srikanth
Abstract: The present experiment was conducted in Laboratory at Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Naini Agriculture Institute, SHUATS and Laboratory of Physics, Shepherd Institute of Engineering and Technology, SHUATS, Allahabad, UP. To study the effect of presowing seed treatment with magnetic field, electric field and combination of both fields on brinjal seeds (traditional variety Deshvali paccha vanga) were studied. Seeds were subjected to different intensities of magnetic field (200G, 400G, 600G, and 800G for 30 minutes), elctric field intensity (100mA, 200mA, 300mA, 400mA for 1 minute) and combined treatments of both magnetic and electric field ranged from (200G+100mA, 400G+100mA, 600G+100mA, 800G+100mA for 30 minutes (MF) and 1 minute (EF)). The seeds treated with magnetic field (800 G for 30 minutes) showed significant increase in germination percentage, shoot length, root length, seedling length, fresh weight, dry weight, speed of germination followed by combined seed treatment with 800G+100mA for 30 minutes (MF) and 1 minute (EF) and electric field seed treatment with (200mA for 1 minutes). Among all the treatments, 800G for 30 minutes exposure of magnetic field seed treatment has given best results. So seed treatment of brinjal seeds with magnetic field is best compared to electric field and combined field seed treatment.
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GBN Jyothi, Prashant Kumar Rai, Saritha Khnadka, D Srikanth. Effect of magnetic and electric field seed treatment on the seedling attributes of brinjal (Solanum melongena) seeds. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(5):2780-2784.
