Growth potential of primed Moringa oleifera varieties under nursery and field conditions of Potohar region-Pakistan

Sami Ullah,Sarwat N Mirza ,Noman Latif Shah Fahad ,Muhammad Rizwan ,Haroon Shahzad ,Muhammad Arshad Khan

doi:10.19045/bspab.2019.80023

Abstract

Abstract Moringa oleifera is a fast emergent multiuse tree. It is protein rich and is used as human food, cattle fodder and medicine. Present research study was carried out to know growth and germination potential of untreated, tap water and hot water treated seeds of four varieties of Moringa oleifera in nursery and field conditions in field area of Koont research farm, Peer Mehar Ali Shah (PMAS), Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi. After treatment seeds were sown in polythene bags in nursery. Germination of seed was recorded for three weeks in laboratory as well as in nursery conditions and statistically analyzed using ANOVA techniques. Simple water, hot water and control enhanced 60%, 71.5% and 41.75% germination in this experiment. Hot water treatment has shown maximum germination percentage in all varieties i.e 80 % in Kumasi Middle Ghana, 85 % in Sunyam Middle Ghana, 62 % in Northern Ghana and 59 % in Tehiman Middle Ghana. Maximum plant height 17.12 cm was recorded in T2 followed by 14.9 cm and 10.8 in T1 and T3, respectively. In nursery conditions, T2 treated plants had maximum stem diameter which was 2.52 mm followed by T1 and T3 that was 2.1 mm and 1.8 mm, respectively. Moringa plants of T1 in field condition had maximum 4.71 mm diameter significantly greater than 3.87 mm (T2) and 3.79 mm (T1) respectively. Keywords: Growth; Moringa; Nursery; Priming http://dx.doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2019.80023

Highlights

It belongs to an it fit to grow in hilly areas but not in onogeneric family (Moringaceae) of shrubs waterlogged areas in less fertile acidic soils
In many regions of the world like in Vietnam, Moringa oleifera leaves are used for food [8]
Hot water treatment Seeds of Moringa oleifera were submerged in 80°C boiled water for 5 minutes and soaked in lukewarm water for 12 hours

Summary

Introduction

Tree, originated from Agra and Oudh, the information about growth of northwest region of India, south of the Moringa oleifera in the acidic soil is almost Seeds were treated with three different treatments and were sown in soil of uniform composition to identify seed germination rate. Control Seeds of Moringa oleifera were placed in petri dishes without any treatment and germination was noticed every other other day for three weeks [16]. Simple water treatment Seeds of Moringa oleifera were submerged in normal water for 24 hours.

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