Vol. 7, Issue 2 (2019)
Effect of seed encapsulation on germination and seedling quality of Santalum Album L.
Author(s): Anandalakshmi R, Anandhaprabhakaran M, Rajesh C, Suresh Kumar K and Geetha S
Abstract: Seed encapsulation technique has a significant impact on germination and seedling quality in forestry crops. Santalum album is one of the tropical trees of commercial value that is being raised in large scale for raising plantations in both forested and non-forest areas. It is imperative to overcome the bottlenecks in sandal seed such as seed dormancy, prolonged germination period and poor plant establishment. Encapsulation of GA3 pretreated sandal seeds using different concentrations of sodium alginate such as 2, 4, 6 and 8% was tried and found that both 6 and 8% concentrations of Sodium alginate encapsulation helped improve germination capacity significantly to 60 and 55% respectively compared to control (38.2%). The Seed vigour index (SV) for the 6 and 8% Sodium alginate concentrations were 853 and 732 while the Sturdiness Quotient (SQ) were observed to be 5.72 and 4.92. However the Chlorophyll Stability Index (CSI) did not vary significantly among the treatments. It was evident that encapsulating pretreated Sandal seeds helps quality planting stock production.
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Anandalakshmi R, Anandhaprabhakaran M, Rajesh C, Suresh Kumar K, Geetha S. Effect of seed encapsulation on germination and seedling quality of Santalum Album L.. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(2):1430-1435.
