Effect of Different Priming Methods on Germination and Seedling Establishment of Two Medicinal Plants under Salt Stress Conditions

Abstract

ABSTRACT. Priming is one of the seed enhancement methods that might be resulted in increasing seed performance (germination and emergence) under stress conditions, such as salinity. Salinity is a major environmental stress which adversely affects germination and seedling establishment in a wide variety of crops. The experiment was arranged as a factorial in completely randomized design (CRD) at Seed Research Laboratory of College of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Iran. The objective of this research was to…