Rice (Oryza sativa L.) provides about 55–80% of the total calories for people in South Asia,
Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Elsewhere, it represents a high-value commodity crop …

Though seed priming has been emerged as an effective and pragmatic approach, efforts are
being made to discover and optimize the new priming agents which are cheaper and easily …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

The study, consisting of two independent experiments, was conducted to evaluate the role of
seed priming with ascorbic acid (AsA) in drought resistance of wheat. In the first experiment …

The optimum temperature for maize germination is between 25 and 28° C. Poor and erratic
germination at suboptimal temperature is the most important hindrance in its early sowing …

Poor seedling establishment is a major deterrent in adopting direct seeding of rice. Seed
priming to obtain better crop stand could be an attractive approach. The objective of this …

In rice–wheat systems, late sowing of wheat is the major reason of low yield. This yield
reduction is principally due to lower and erratic germination, and poor crop establishment …

Salinity is one of a major threat in harvesting good wheat stand on sustained basis. In this
study, potential of seed priming techniques to improve the performance of wheat varieties …

Higher water requirements and increasing labor costs are the major problems of the
traditional rice production system. Direct seeded rice culture, growing rice without standing …

Hydropriming techniques were optimized for vigour enhancement in fine and coarse rice
(Oryza sativa L.) types by evaluating the germination and seedling vigour. For hydropriming …