Effect of Various Presowing Seed Treatments on Growth and Yield Parameters of Yellow Mustard (Sinapis alba.L) Variety (ISP -186)

Abstract

The present investigation was conducted during Rabi season in the year (2021-2022) at post graduate Central Research Farm, Department of Genetics and plant Breeding , Naini Agriculture Institute, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology And Sciences, PRAYAGRAJ-211007 (U.P) with a goal to evaluate the influence of different seed priming treatments on growth and yield attributes of yellow mustard (Sinapis alba) Variety (ISP-186) and to find out suitable seed priming method for mustard under Randomized Block Design with 13 priming treatments which are replicated thrice. The seed priming materials are rhizobium, vermiwash, neem leaf extract and tulsi leaf extract. The results revealed that treatment T3 rhizobium (10%) recorded maximum Field emergence (97.17), plant height (90.26cm) ,Number of Branches (15.07),Days to 50% flowering (71), Days to Maturity (117days), Number of siliqua\plant (289.33), Number of seeds\siliqua (16.40), seed yield /plant (7.35gm)seed yield \plot(28.7gm) Biological yield (131.54),Harvest index (17.94).significance mean sum of squares due to seed priming treatments were observed for all the characters under study viz., Field emergence percentage, Plant height (30, 60, 90, 120 DAS and at harvest), Number of branches/plant, Days to maturity, Number of silique/plant, Number of seeds/plant, seed yield/plant (gm), Seed yield/plot (gm), Biological yield (gm), Harvest index (%) which were highly significant at 1% level of significance indicating presence of good amount of variability among the treatments for these characters.