2.4.2. Seed germination
Effect of hydrophilic polymer seed coating on seed germination
was assessed by following standard germination test protocol
(ISTA, 1999) with slight modification. Three hundred seeds each of
coated and non-coated seeds, in three replicates of hundred seeds,
were kept for germination between moist paper towels, at 25 ◦C.
Germination was estimated as percentage of normal seedlings that
emerged until the fourteenth day