GERMINATION, VIGOR AND SEEDLING ATTRIBUTES OF WHEAT VARIETIES AS INFLUENCED BY FERTILIZER SOURCES AND STORAGE CONTAINER

Abstract

The experiment was conducted at the laboratory condition of Agronomy Department of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU), Dhaka during the period from April to November 2018 to evaluate the aftermath effect of variety and fertilization on the germination and seedling attributes of the seed stored under different storage containers. The seeds were collected from a previously implemented experiment having different fertilizer levels and wheat varieties. And as such the experiment comprised three factors viz. factor A: storage containers (three containers) like Tin container, Plastic pot and Polythene; factor B: seven fertilizer sources during crop production from where seeds were stored such as recommended dose, poultry manure + 25% recommended dose, poultry manure + 50% recommended dose, poultry manure + 75% recommended dose, compost + 25% recommended dose, compost + 50% recommended dose, compost + 75% recommended dose; and Factor C wheat varieties (BARI Gom 29, BARI Gom 30). The experiment was laid out in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with three replications. The result revealed that tin container showed the highest germination percentage, shoot length, root length and seedling dry weight at 60, 120 and 180 DAS (days after storage). Lowest quality performance was observed from polythene. BARI Gom 30 showed the higher quality performance in respect of the germination percentage, shoot and root length, seedling dry weight. Among the fertilizer levels, poultry manure applied at recommended dose showed the best performance in all the cases.