Seed priming is a presowing technique in which seeds are moderately hydrated to the point
where pregermination metabolic processes begin without actual germination. Seeds are …

Background Food security is an important alarming issue across the globe and seed is an
important structure to maintain the production capacity of plants. With the fast development …

In the context of seed technology, the use of physical methods for increasing plant
production offers advantages over conventional treatments based on chemical substances …

Vegetable crops benefit from seed priming technology by their low volume and high value.
Early sowing of vegetables under suboptimal environments is practised often to fetch better …

Seed is a critically important basic input of agriculture, because sowing healthy seeds is
essential to food production. Using high quality seed enables less use of synthetic …

Exhaustion of stratospheric ozone found at a height of 10–30 km around the world causes
the solar UV-B (280–320 nm) radiation to penetrate through the atmosphere more, and thus …

Seed priming has long been explored as an effective value-added potential technique that
results in improved germination, reduced seedling emergence time, shortened crop …

The emerging concept, that agricultural crops become more hardy on exposure to low levels
of UV radiation, has directed the thoughts towards utilizing the same for priming the …

Increasing ultraviolet (UV) radiation is causing oxidative stress that accounts for growth and
yield losses in the present era of climate change. Plant hormones are useful tools for …

Being sessile organisms, plants are exposed to multiple stimuli without possibility for
escape. Therefore, plants have evolved to be able to adapt their developmental and …