Germination performance of some legume crops under varying soil water available capacities

A laboratory attempt was made to evaluate germination performances of three lentil cultivars namely Nineveh, Adlib and Baraka, besides Common Vetch and Mungbeans under varying soil water availabilities. Soils were moistened to 100, 75, 50 and 25% of its water available capacity and were used as germinating media. Germinating seeds in 0% soil AWC depletion […]

Germination performance of some legume crops under varying filter paper moistures

Adverse effects of water stress without ions interactions in Baraka, Adlib and Nineveh lentil cultivars have been investigated. Results showed that germination under saturation (0 AWC depletion %) was the paramount treatment as it manifested the highest values. It profoundly surpassed that of 25, 50, and 75 AWC depletion % in terms of final germination […]

Seed germination in response to osmotic stress

An Attempt was carried out to evaluate seed germination performances of Baraka, Adlib and Nineveh lentil cultivars besides Local Vetch and Local Mungbean cultivar under (0, -0.5, -1 and -1.5 Mpa) osmotic potentials created by dissolving pure NaCl in distilled water. Gradual reductions in osmotic solutions resulted in gradual reduction in all detected parameters. Subsequently, […]