V.S. Patil and B.S. Mali
Abstract
Soil salinity is one of the biggest problem in agriculture. Soil salinity is abiotic environmental factor for plants. Excess salt present in soil are effect on plants and they cause harmful effect on plant growth and development. Some plants are developed to tolerate such extreme environmental conditions and they survive and complete their life cycle. Current study focuses on effect of salt like NaCl and KCl on seed germination of Amaranthus viridis L. The Seed collected by study sites and used for germination experiment. The different concentrations of NaCl and KCl like 0.5%, 1%, 1.5% and 2% prepared and used for seed germination experiment. The experiment done in Laboratory and proper care. The clean Petri plates are used for seed germination experiment. The 20 healthy seeds are selected for seed germination experiment. The distilled water is used for control treatment. The seed germination in distilled water is approximately 100%. The NaCl and KCl concentrations are increased then seed germination decreases, but the NaCl shows good result as compare to KCl. The germination of seeds in salts solutions shows that Amaranthus viridis L is salt tolerance plant and used in future for bio remediation purposes