Germination of chemically treated and mechanically scarified chico and pili seeds
Date
3-1977
Degree
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture
Major Course
Major in Horticulture
College
College of Agriculture and Food Science (CAFS)
Adviser/Committee Chair
Ernesto B. Pastastico
Co-adviser
Elizabeth C. Campo
Abstract
A study was conducted on the effects of chemicals and mechanical scarcification on freshly extracted and stored chico and pill seeds. Percent germination of chico rseeds was increased by storage for one month, application of 200 ppm gibberellic acid, soaking in water, and cracking the seedcoat. Sulfuric acid treatment, on the other hand, reduced percentage germination. In chico seeds, germination was hastened by ethephon, delayed by naphthalene acetic acid and gibberellic acid and unaffected by benzyl adenine.
Germination in pili seeds was increased by providing an after-ripening period of one month and by producing a slight crack on the hard seedcoat but not by treating with sulfuric acid. Moreover, removal and cracking of the seedcoat induced early germination time.
Language
English
Location
UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section (USCS)
Call Number
Thesis
Recommended Citation
Adriano,, Myrna S. 1954-, "Germination of chemically treated and mechanically scarified chico and pili seeds" (1977). Undergraduate Theses. 10105.
https://www.ukdr.uplb.edu.ph/etd-undergrad/10105
Document Type
Thesis