Department of Seed Science and Technology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore - 641 003, India.
Dry dressing of freshly harvested lablab seeds with thiram @ 2g kg1, activated clay @ 1:100 (clay: seed ratio) and halogens @ 3g kg−1 revealed that the seeds dry dressed with thiram @ 2g kg−1 and stored in 700 gauge polythene bag maintained the maximum germination (80%), drymatter production (134 mg seedling−10), protein content (24.24%) and minimum leakage of electrical conductivity (0.940 dSm−1) and bruchid infestation (9.58%) up to one year under natural ageing conditions over control. In all the treatments, the deterioration of seed quality parameters was less in polythene bag compared to cloth bag.
