1Plant Production and Meadow Ecosystems Department, Russian State Agrarian University-MAAA Named After, K.A. Timiryazev, 127550, Listvennichnaya alleya St. 3, Moscow, Russian Federation, Russia
2Plant Production Department Ecology and Dry land Cultivation Division, Desert Research Center, Cairo, Egypt
*Corresponding Author: S.E.A. Abd El Hamid, Plant Production Department, Ecology and Dry land Cultivation Division, Desert Research Center, Cairo, Egypt, Email: Safwat.agri@mail.ru
Online published on 22 October, 2020.
The results of this experiment showed the effect of barley seeds pre-treatments and organo-mineral fertilizer on the morpho-physiological evaluation of seedlings, seed quality and productivity of spring barley (Mikhailovsky). Variance analysis results (ANOVA) showed extremely significant (p<0.05) variations between different treatments in all traits, where the treatments led to increasing the germination energy, laboratory germination, growth force and weight of 100 sprouts compared with control. There was a positive effect on the development of the barley root system. Pre-treatment of seeds in wet years have been proven to be the most effective, while the efficiency of seed treatment pre-sowing decreased when soil moisture was low. Therefore, in 2017 barley productivity increased when the seeds were treated with a mixture of Polaris with Siliplant by 25% compared to control, while in 2018 the yield increased (7.1%) when mixture of Siliplant with Polaris was applied compared to control.
Barley, Fertilizer, Germination, Polaris, Seed treatments, Siliplant
