Effect of Seed Treatment on Seed Germination Areca nut (Areca catechu Linnaeus) Palm

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dc.contributor.authorWanninayaka, R.P.P.
dc.contributor.authorAlwis, L.M.H.R.
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-21T10:17:37Z
dc.date.available2022-03-21T10:17:37Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractAreca nut (Areca catechu) palm is an evergreen plant which is highly restricted to the warmer regions of the world. There are numerous uses of Areca nut palm as food, fuel, timber, boundary plant (George et al., 2006) and landscaping palm (Orwa et al., 2009). As an ornamental palm, currently, Sri Lanka has great demand in export market because of their aesthetic and enormous tropical appearance, especially from Middle- East countries. Also it has higher local demand as landscaping plant and a boundary plant in agricultural fields. Ornamental palm exporters export 100,000 to 150,000 areca nut seedlings in one consignment. Seed germination is not uniform in large scale production of areca nut seedlings. Normally, it takes five to six months to germinate and inherently these palms have low germination percentage which is around 25% to 30%. Because of the low germination percentage of areca nut palm, growers have to sow at least 250,000 to 300,000 areca nut seeds to get 100,000 seedlings. Therefore, growers confronted many difficulties in nursery management of areca nut palm. Byusing proper treatments for seeds and controlling the temperature and moisture of the planting media, germination percentage can be significantly increased up to 80% to 90% and time taken to germinate can be reduced up to 3 to 4 weeks. As a result, seed requirement and cost of production can be significantly reduced. This will be a massive assistance for the palm growers of ornamental palm industry in Sri Lanka. Therefore, in this study, it attempts to find out the effect of seed treatment on seed germination in seed propagation of areca nut palms. Methodology In the experiment, 576 areca nut seeds were taken. As seed treatments, three di fferent soaking times: 24 hrs, 48 hrs and 72 hrs without soaking as control treatment were used. Black polythene, straw and paddy husk were used as mulching materials and control experiment kept without mulch. Coir dust and sand were taken as growing media in 1:1 ratio. Twelve seeds were sown in vertical position with calyx end covered in each plastic tray (Sheshagiri et al., 2004)for each treatment with different seed treatments and three replicates. All trays were kept in shade house. Temperature and Relative Humidity in shade house and temperature under mulching materials were measured in two days intervals. Rooting was observed daily and first sight of root emerging was taken as start of seed germination.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.erepo.lib.uwu.ac.lk/bitstream/handle/123456789/8535/71-PLT-Effect%20of%20Seed%20Treatment%20on%20Seed%20Germination%20Areca%20nut%20%28Areca%20catechu%20.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUva Wellassa University of Sri Lankaen_US
dc.subjectAgricultureen_US
dc.subjectExport Agricultureen_US
dc.subjectCrop Productionen_US
dc.subjectPlantationsen_US
dc.titleEffect of Seed Treatment on Seed Germination Areca nut (Areca catechu Linnaeus) Palmen_US
dc.title.alternativeResearch Symposium 2013en_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
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