Asian Journal of Crop Science1994-78792077-2041Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/ajcs.2013.444.451JayanthiM. UmaraniR. VijayalakshmiV. 4201354Rice is the staple food for over half of the Indian population, main emphasis
has to be laid on ways and means to fortify seeds organically for better seed
vigour. Seed fortification is one of the important seed invigouration treatment.
Germinated grains are good sources of ascorbic acid, riboflavin, choline, thiamine,
tocopherols and pantothenic acid which increases the nutritional quality. Extract
has prepared from the sprouted pulses. With these background, an experiment
was conducted during 2008 to study the effect of seed fortification with pulse
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dried back to original moisture content and untreated seeds served as control.
The observations made on crop growth and yield factors such as field emergence
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treatments 2% horse gram sprout extract recorded the highest yield of 3951 kg
ha-1. The yield enhancement may be due to the presence of bioactive
substances in sprouted horse gram and cowpea extracts were found effective towards
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