PRE- SOWING SEED TREATMENT OF BIO FERTILIZERS ONGROWTH, YIELD AND YIELD ATTRIBUTING TRAITS OF CHICK PEA(CICER ARIETINUM L.) VARIETY: KING GANESHMalave Gaganasree, Prashant Kumar Rai and Sasya NagarAbstract The experiment was conducted at Crop Research Farm unit (CRF) Sam Higginbottom University ofAgriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj during 2020-2021. For this purpose, 13 priming treatmentsincluding control on chickpea var. king Ganesh seeds were subjected to treatment with various primers.The chickpea var. king Ganesh seeds were primed with above different priming agents in above differentconcentrations for a duration of 8 hours. After drying, the seeds were used to grow under field conditions.Experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with three replications during rabi 2020-21. Analysis of variance revealed significant mean sum of squares due to seed priming treatments. Priming with T12 (Rhizobium) (10 g) was found significantly superior which affected all the growth and yield parameters inchickpea in comparison to control and other treatments. Thus, seed priming with T12 (Rhizobium) (10g) is useful for improving yield in chickpea. |