Evaluation of forage and seed quality and quantity characteristics of cultivated amaranthus (Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.) using some seed pretreatment

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Urmia University

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To study the effect of seed priming on forage and seed quality and quantity of cultivated amaranthus, a field experiment was conducted as randomized completely block design with six treatments and three replications in experimental of college of agriculture of Urmia University on 2013 cropping season. Treatments were seed priming of pigeon manure (10%), concentrated vaniaz 68.39% (3*1000) super macro plus nano chelate fertilizer (3*1000), magnet water, Homeopathy 12x and control. The seeds were soaked in the listed treatments for 8 hours; therefore those were brought to the initial moisture content for 24 hours at 25◦C.therefore those were brought to the initial moisture content for 24 hours at 25 ◦C and transmitted to field for planting. Harvest was at flowering stage in one square meter of each experimental unit. In current study were including Steam dry matter, Leaf dry matter, Leaf to stem ratio, Forage yield, P, K, C and seed yield, oil percent and yield, protein percent and yield were evaluated. Treatment effect on steam dry matter (306.5 gr m-2), leaf (255.8 gr m-2), Forage yield (7809.7 kg ha-1), CaO (20.4 gr kg-1), P2O5 (3.9 gr kg-1), seed yield (798.2 kg ha-1), oil % (12.2%), oil yield (217.5 kg ha-1), protein % (13.8%), protein yield (234.5 kg ha-1) was significant and increasing. According to obtained results, using magnetic water and nano chelate pretreatment was lead to quantitative enhancement more than others.

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Iranian Journal of Seed Sciences and Research
Volume 5, Issue 2
July 2018
Pages 1-9

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