Abhishek Pati Tiwari, Ashish Singh Parihar, Mayanker Singh, Aman Mishra and Ankit Yadav
Abstract
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.