Studies on seed quality parameters of soybean (Glycine max (L.) seed stored in gunny bags and HDPE bags

Abstract

The experiment was conducted at Seed Technology Research Unit , Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani during the year 2012-2013 to studies on seed quality parameters of soybean seed stored in gunny bags and High Density Polythene Bags (HDPE) bags. The experiment consisted of two soybean (MAUS-71 and JS-335) varieties was laid out in Factorial Completely Randomized Block Design with three replications. The character association revealed that the seed quality characters studied viz., germination%, speed of germination, seed vigour index, seed moisture content, seed mycoflora showed significantly maximum in the JS-335 variety for HDPE storage bag indicating the vital role of these characters towards corresponding seed storability of soybean variety. The JS-335 soybean variety showed high value of desirable seedling characters also good storer, this may be due to high germination and early vigour of JS-335 variety than the MAUS-71. Thus, more emphasis should be given on seed quality characters, as an early indicator of relative seed storability in the HDPE plastic bag it may be used as selection criteria for identification of good storable material for different field crops.