Indian Journal of Plant Physiology

  • Year: 1985
  • Volume: 28o
  • Issue: 4

Effect of Ethrel (2-Chloroethyl Phosphonic Acid) on Germination and Seedling Growth of Tea Camellia Sinensis (L.) O. Kuntz.

  • Author:
  • T.S. Barman1, C.M. Sarma2
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 413 to 417

1Department of Botany, Tockloi Experimental Station, Jorhat-785008

2Assam Department of Agricultural Botany, Gauhati University, Gauhati, 781014, Assam (India).

Abstract

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.