Seed Physiology of Crops

Contents: foreword. Preface. 1. Seed Dormancy/Balakrishnan. K, S. Lakshmi Narayanan and S. Vincent. 2. Management of marginal seed quality by seed treatments Tectniques/Sasikala. K. 3. Seed and seedling vigour in rice under normal and aHarsh environmental condition/Anandan. A, R. Eswaran, G. Rajiv and N. Muthalagan. 4. Physiological evaluation of osmoprimed seeds of black gram and red gram/Vincent. S, M. Ragavel, H. Vijayaraghavan and K. Balakrishnan. 5. Studies on the management of differentially aged seeds and their progenies in cowpea by pre sowing seed treatments/Sasikala, K. 6. Physiological basis for midstorage correction in oilseeds/Sathiya Narayanan. G, M. Prakash, B. Sunil Kumar, S. Padmavathi, P. Srimathi and D. Kalavathu. 7. Pregermination behaviour in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) Varieties/Paramasivam, V, Balamurugan, S. Sundareswaran and R. Vaidyanathan. 8. Castor-Seed Physiology/Kialarani. M.K, R. Sivakumar, S.R. Venkatachalam, R. Sivachandran and V. Palanisamy. 9. Seed Development and Maturation in Vegetables – An Overview/Srimathi. P, J. Renugadevi and G. Sasthri. 10. Tapioca – seed growth and development/Nageswari. K. M.K. Kalarani, R. Sivachandran and V. Palanisamy. 11. Tea Seed Physiology and biochemistry with reference to germination potential/Raj Kumar. R and P. Mohan Kumar. 12. Teak Seed Dormancy: Problems and prospects/P. Masilamani and C. Bavaneswaran. 13. Effect of seed treatment on storage potential of Jatropha (Jatropha curcas L. ) Cv. Coimbatore Local/Prakash. M, M. Devendran, G. Sathiyanarayanan, A. Kamaraj, B. Sunil Kumar and S. Padmavathy.

Seed Physiology of Crops is the basis for seed production. Seed Physiology deals with the physiological and biochemical aspects of seed germination, growth, development and maturation. Even though a number of books are available on seed science and technology, books on seed physiology are meager, hence, in order to provide a comprehensive review on seed physiology of major crops, an attempt has been made to compile seed physiology in major crops.

 The authors for different topics of this volume were having good expertise in the relevant subject and also have their own credit for research with good number of publications. The chapters in this volume will be very much useful to the readers in understanding the importance of seed physiology of major crops. This book will serve as a compendium of seed growth, development and maturation of major crops in an exhaustive manner. Efforts have been taken to distinguish this book from others as a treasured record which will be useful for the scientists and research scholars of agriculture, particularly, seed technologists and physiologists.