GERMINATION OF SEEDS OF Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu UNDER DIFFERENT STORAGE PERIODS AND HORMONAL TREATMENT

The aim of this work was to study the effects of seeds coat, storage period and hormonal treatment on seed germination. The seeds of Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu were stored for four, five and sixteen months post harvesting and the study was carried out using intact and denuded seeds. The seeds...

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Autores: Câmara, Heloísa Helena L. Lemes, Stacciarini-Seraphin, Eliane
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
Repositorio:Pesquisa Agropecuária Tropical (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/2436
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ufg.br/pat/article/view/2436
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:ABA
Brachiaria brizantha
GA3
germination
seeds
braquiária
germinação
sementes
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Sumario:The aim of this work was to study the effects of seeds coat, storage period and hormonal treatment on seed germination. The seeds of Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu were stored for four, five and sixteen months post harvesting and the study was carried out using intact and denuded seeds. The seeds were denuded by manual removal of its coats. The seed viability, its moisture level and water uptake were also tested. For germination experiments the seeds was treated with gibberellic acid (GA3) and abscisic acid (ABA) (0.1 and 1.0 mmol.m-3) and kept at 28oC ± 2 in BOD. The analysis of germinated seeds was carried out over five days and the emergence of the axis (radicle) was the parameter used to recognize the seed germination. The results showed that the seed coat inhibits its germination and seeds submitted to extended storage period (sixteen months) although had conserved its moisture and viability, showed low germination percentage and it did not respond to GA3 treatment, whereas seeds stored for five month showed more sensitive to ABA than to GA3 treatment.KEY-WORDS: ABA; Brachiaria brizantha; GA3; germination; seeds.