Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar - 608 002, India.
*Corresponding author, E-mail: geeth_prakash@yahoo.co.in.
An investigation was carried out to study the influence of 28 – homobrassinolide on morphological, growth, biochemical and yield parameters of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.). The plants were sprayed with 0.5 mg/l homobrassinolide on 30, 45 and 60 DAS. Among the treatments, the plants treated with homobrassinolide thrice recorded higher values for all the parameters. The total chlorophyll, soluble protein, sugars and catalase activity were found to be maximum in the HBR treated plants. The application of HBR enhanced the total dry matter production, number of capsules per plant, number of seeds per capsule, capsule weight and 1000 seed weight.
Homobrassinolide, morphophysiology, Sesamum indicum, yield
