Effect of Different Solutions on Seed Germination and Physiological Changes in Cicer arietinum

Abstract

The chickpea is rich source of vitamins, fibers and minerals; it provides variety of health benefits like aiding weight management, improving digestion and lessens the risk of several diseases. The chickpea is high in protein and it is the best way to replace meat in vegetarian and vegan diets. For seed germination of chick pea generally used growth hormones like gibberellic acid (GA), IAA, IBA, salicylic acid and etc, PEG (polyethylene glycol) and control is used for comparison. In present work, the seeds of chickpea (Cicer arietinum) are treated with hormones like gibberellic acid salicylic acid solutions, PEG solution and as stress there is salt stress (NaCl) and citric acid (CA) solutions to see the seeds germination under this circumstances, and seeds also germinated in control (distilled water) condition for comparison in petridish on whatman paper for 10 days after that the germinated seeds (PEG, gibberellic acid and distilled water) transferred to the mud pot with the soil and irrigate with their respective solutions for 20 days and take measurement and weight of plants after every 5 days interval.