1Department of Botany, Tockloi Experimental Station, Jorhat-785008
2Assam Department of Agricultural Botany, Gauhati University, Gauhati, 781014, Assam (India).
Ethrel at 10 μg/ml induced higher percent germination of intact seed and better seedling growth. It inhibited germination of scarified seeds and seedling growth. The magnitude of inhibition increased with the rise in ethrel concentrations.