“…It is a relatively affordable method of seed hydration, and it usually involves preparing the seeds either with natural water or with various chemicals (Sarthi and Rawat, 2020). Priming also shorten the mean emergence time between sowing and the emergence of seedlings by increasing carbohydrate biosynthesis, antioxidants, phytohormones production, induced enzymes and protein activity such as heat shock protein and late embryogenesis abundant protein and initiate respiratory associated pathways (Ling-Yun et al, 2022;Srivastava et al, 2022). It minimizes seed sensitivity towards adverse environmental conditions (Michalska-Klimczak et al, 2018) by reducing cellular damage during water imbibition process, ionic homeostatis, regulating metabolic activities, and helps in repairing any damage to DNA (Tania et al, 2022;Ling-Yun et al, 2022).…”