Moisture content of the maize seed

Hydropriming has the potential to ameliorate the stress-induced ill effects on yields of the crop plants and quality of seed produced. In the present study, half of the fresh seeds of maize hybrid, PEHM 5 and its parental lines (Female - CM 150, Male - CM 151) were subjected to accelerated aging test for bringing down the viability and vigour, thereby creating low vigour lots while high vigour lots consisted of fresh seeds, which were hydroprimed (30 h at 25°C). Half of the hydroprimed seeds were surface dried while the other half were redried back to the original moisture contents.

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Maize (Zea mays L) is one of the most versatile emerging cereal crops having wider adaptability under varied agro-climatic conditions. Pre and post harvesting operations are the most labour intensive operations that are presently done manually in India and need to be mechanized. The physical properties of seeds play an important role for designing seed metering device.

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A study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of some newer insecticidal molecules viz., Emamectin benzoate (Proclaim 5 SG) @ 2 ppm, Spinosad (Tracer 45 SC) @ 2 ppm, Indoxacarb (Avaunt 14.5 SC) @ 2 ppm, Rynaxypyr (Coragen 20 SC) @ 2ppm, Chlorfenapyr (Intrepid 10 EC) @ 2 ppm, Profenofos (Curacron 50 EC) @ 2 ppm, Novaluron (Rimon 10 EC) @ 5 ppm, Deltamethrin 2. 8 EC @ 1 ppm along with untreated control against rice weevil and to assess the storability of treated seed. All the nine treatments were replicated thrice and statistically analyzed by using completely randomized design.

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