Unlike other major crops in which seeds provide most of the economic value, cotton seed is largely a by-product of more valuable fiber production and represents only approximately 15% of the farm gate value of the cotton crop. A cotton plant normally produces about 1.6 kg of seed for every kg of lint. Following ginning to remove the lint fiber, fuzzy cotton seed is either used directly as anima...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of different sowing time on seed yield and quality in under used medicinal plant babchi. The study was carried out for 12 months from January to December. Results showed that the seeds sown in November month recorded the maximum seed yield and quality parameters followed by October month than other months. November month recorded the maximum fi...

By thermal evaporation of pure ZnO powders, high-density vertical-aligned ZnO nanorod arrays with diameter ranged in 80–250 nm were successfully synthesized on Si substrates covered with ZnO seed layers. It was revealed that the morphology, orientation, crystal, and optical quality of the ZnO nanorod arrays highly depend on the crystal quality of ZnO seed layers, which was confirmed by the char...

The present study were carried out in the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, NDUAT, Faizabad during rabi season 2014-15 and 2015-16 entitled “standardization of biofortification and hydropriming for enhance seed yield and its quality parameters in chickpea (Cicer arietinum l.)” The objective of the study was assessing the comparative performance of yield and qual...

Crop landraces are managed populations that evolve in response to gene flow and selection. Cross-pollination among fields, seed sharing by farmers, and selection by management and environmental conditions play roles in shaping crop characteristics. We used common gardens to explore the local adaptation of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) landrace populations from Chiapas, Mexico to altitude. We sowed...

Abstract Plant breeding and seed technology are the two arms of crop improvement programmes. The ultimate goal any plant programme is to make available quality seeds new improved varieties in adequate quantity farmers. Modern techniques have enabled development with desired traits at a much higher pace than ever before, addressing challenges food nutritional security. A large number being bred ...

Abstract Pre-harvest and post-harvest operations are integral parts of the quality seed production system. If due attention is not paid during first phase, probably therewill be any means left to obtain seed. Similarly, good produced with utmost care may lose much its value if proper management followed period. The attributes genetic purity, appearance physical germination potential, vigour hea...

Effect of seed ageing on stand establishment, growth and yield of three soybean varieties was studied. Treatments consisted of three varieties viz. Shohag, Bangladesh soybean 4 and BARIsoybean-5 with four levels of seed ageing viz. 20, 12, 8 and 2 months aged seed. Seed germination and field emergence percentage decreased but electrical conductivity of seed leachate increased with increasing se...

the high quality and quantity seed production in old saxual shrubs are essential for regeneration and sustainable development of saxual forests in desert areas. the objective of this study was to determine the effects of different pruning height on saxual seed production. the study was carried out in an obviously wilted saxual forest located in ashkezar desert in yazd in 1994. the experiment wa...