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International Journal of Food, Agriculture and Animal Sciences (IJFAA), vol.2, no.1, pp.8-14, 2022 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Adverse environmental conditions reduce seed germination and prolong germination
period. P Pre-applications of the seeds to increase the germination are important. Some of the priming applications increasing
germination are the process of keeping the seeds in pure water and sage extract
for a certain period of time. This study conducted to determine the effects of
priming and KNO3 applications on some seed quality parameters in
melon obtained from melon producers in Çanakkale region. Melon seeds were
subjected to control (no priming and KNO3), different priming (pure
water, sage) and salt stress (KNO3) treatments. As a result of the
measurements made on the average germination time, average germination rate,
average hypocotyl length, average radicle length and average radicle thickness
parameters in the study, it was observed that the quality parameters that
showed good improvement with priming applications decreased with KNO3
stress. Priming of both sage and distilled water significantly increased the
mean germination rate under KNO3 stress. The most positive effect
was the sage application, the least effect was the control (no priming) application.