Effect of Water on Seed Germination in Casuarina junghuhniana MIQ and Acacia auriculiformis
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https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2017/v143i3/113627Keywords:
Acacia, Casurina, Germination, Irrigation, Salinity, Seed.Abstract
Salinity stress is one of the growing concerns in crop management around the world. Adopting tolerant plants to salinity conditions could be an appropriate approach to this problem. Acacia acuriculiformis and Casurina junghuhniana are important fast growing timber species in tropical region. C. Junghuhniana is widely cultivated in farm lands for pulp wood in coastal areas due to fast growth and short rotation. The salt content and anions of irrigation water influences the seed germination and its associated parameters. An experiment was conducted using four types of irrigation waters viz., saline water - bore well (T1), sweet water - reservoir (T2), RO water (T3) and saline water: sweet water (1:1, T4) in order to evaluate effect of irrigation on seed germination and its associated characters of A. acuriculiformis and C. junghuhniana. Results revealed that maximum value of G, MDG, PV and GV of C. junghuhniana was found in saline water-bore-well whereas a reverse trend was noted in the above-said parameters in A. auriculiformis. Thus, salt tolerance and maternal environment of tree species were influence seed germination. The results confirmed that certain degree of salinity may be required for enhanced seed germination and growth of salt tolerance trees like C. equisetfolia.References
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