Abstract
The experiment was conducted to find out the effects of hydropriming on seed germination, seedling growth and yield of bitter. Two single factor experiments were conduced at the laboratory and field of Seed Science and Technology Department following completely randomized design with three replications and randomized complete block design with five replications, rspectively. The experiments comprised six soaking treatments viz. T0: untreated (control), T1: tap water (around 25º ± 2º C) for overnight, T2:cold water (12ºC) for 5 min, T3: cold water (12ºC) for 10min, T4:cold water (12ºC) for 15min, T5: hot water (45ºC) for 5 min and T6: hot water (45ºC) for 10min soaking. The highest germination (88.0%) was obtained from T5 treatment and the lowest germination (30.0%) was recorded in control treatment. It was also observed that T5 treatment exehibited superior performances in respect of most of the parameters studied in the laboratory as well as in fiield experiment as compeared to control treatment. In respect of fruit yield per plant, maximum number of fruits obtained from T5 treatment (16 fruits/plant) followed by T6 (14 fruit/plant), T1 (12 fruit/plant), T2 (12.0 fruit/plant), T3 (11.2 fruit/plant) and T4 (11.2 fruit/plant) and the minimum number of fruits per plant recorded from the control treatment (7.6). From the findings of these study it can be concluded that bitter gourd seeds soaked in hot water at 45ºC for 5 min could improve seed germination, expedite seedling growth and eventually increase the yield of fruit.
 J Bangladesh Agril Univ 17(3): 281–287, 2019
Highlights
Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) belongs to the family Cucurbitaceae commonly known as Karola in Bangladesh
Two separate experiments were conducted in the Field and in the Laboratory of the Department of Seed Science and Technology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh during November 2016 to March 2017
The treatments used for both the experiments were T0: untreated control, T1: tap water soaking for overnight, T2: soaking in cold water (12oC) for 5 min, T3: cold water (12oC) for 10 min, T4: cold water (12oC) for
Summary
Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) belongs to the family Cucurbitaceae commonly known as Karola in Bangladesh. It is popular due to its medicinal properties which is usually recommended for curing blood diseases, rheumatism, diabetes and asthma. According to Yibchokanun et al (2006), bitter gourd is a blood purifier, activates spleen and liver and is highly beneficial in diabetes. Bitter gourd is very much helpful in curing the diabetes having anti carcinogenic properties and can be used as a cytotoxic agent against many types of cancer (Grover and Yadav, 2004). Each 100 g of edible portion of bitter gourd fruit contains 2.1g protein, 1.0g fat, 1.4 g minerals, 1.7 g fiber, 10.6 g carbohydrate, 23 g calcium, 38 g phosphorus, 2.0 g iron, 126 μg carotene, 0.07 mg thiamine, 0.06 mg riboflavin and 96 mg vitamin (Gopalan et al, 1982). Total vegetable production in Bangladesh was about 3448000 tons in 414979.76 ha area of land
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