EFFECT OF INTEGRATED SEED TREATMENTS ON SEED QUALITY AND STORABILITY OF CHICKPEA (CICER ARIETINM L.)Abhishek Pati Tiwari, Ashish Singh Parihar, Mayanker Singh, Aman Mishra and Ankit YadavAbstract The experiment was carried out during rabi season of 2017-18 to know the effect of integrated seed treatments at seed quality and storability characters of chickpea. Chickpea variety KWR-108 seed were treated with following treatments viz. carbendazim @ 0.1% (T1), imidacloprid @ 0.1% (T2), rhizobium + PSB @ 2.5 g each /100g seed (T3), Trichoderma harzianum @ 0.2% (T4), T1 + T2 = (T5), T3 + T4 = (T6), T1 + T2 + T3 = (T7), T1 + T2 + T3 + T4 = (T8) and untreated (T0) and treated seeds were sowed at Oil Seed Farm of C.S. Azad University of Agriculture & Technology Kanpur. Agronomic package and practices was applied as per recommendation and after harvesting seeds were tested on seed quality parameters viz. germination %, seedling length, seedling dry weight, SVI-I & SVI-II further seed were stored at ambient condition for eight month and again seed quality were tested at the end of experiment treatment T8 showed significantly maximum seed quality (99.6% seed germination, 22.10cm seedling length, 0.61g seedling dry weight, 2199.4 SVI-I & 62.1 SVI-II) at just after harvest as well as (91.6% germination, 21.80 cm seedling length, 0.57g seedling dry weight, 1997.8SVI-I & 52.2 SVI-II) after eight months of storage followed by treatment T7 over untreated seeds. |