Arun Pandian N., Radha Krishnan G. and Abhinav Dayal
Abstract
Agricultural sector uses electrical, magnetic, and electromagnetic seed treatments as non-invasive methods to improve seed germination and increase crop yields. The potential to improve seed quality, plant growth and development using low-cost electricity and magnetic energy is considered to be of great practical importance. Improving food stockpile utilization, superior nutrient uptake, plant assimilation, and enhanced photosynthetic activity are all related to magnetic fields. As such experiments were conducted at the Postgraduate laboratory, Department of Genetics and Plant breeding, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj, U.P. The experiment was laid out in a Completely Randomized Design with 21 treatments and are replicated four times. The experiment findings revealed that seeds primed with electric field with 150mT intensity and 10 minutes duration (T6) was significantly higher over other treatments under the parameters viz., germination percent (96.75%), root length (16.28cm), shoot length (16.15cm), seedling length (32.44cm), fresh weight (1.83g), dry weight (0.55g), root: shoot ratio (0.62), seed metabolic efficiency (0.644), vigour index-1 (3137), vigour index-2 (51.57), electrical conductivity (1.053dsm-1), seed density (1.19 g cm-1), dehydrogenase activity (0.424Odg-1ml-1), amylose content (34.52 mg). whereas minimum was found in control..