Assessing Influence of Ozone in Tomato Seed Dormancy Alleviation英文文献资料.docVIP

American Journal of Plant Sciences, 2011, 2, 443-448 443 doi:10.4236/ajps.2011.23051 Published Online September 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ajps) Assessing Influence of Ozone in Tomato Seed Dormancy Alleviation N. Sudhakar , D. Nagendra-Prasad , N. Mohan , Bradford Hill , M. Gunasekaran , K. Murugesan 1* 2 2 3 3 2 1 Department of Microbiology, Sengunthar Arts and Science College, Tiruchengode, India; Center for Advanced Studies in Botany, 2 University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai, India; Department of Biology, Fisk University, Nashville, USA. * Email: nadesansudhakar@yahoo.co.in 3 Received May 20 , 2011; revised June 29 , 2011; accepted July 18 , 2011. th th th ABSTRACT The study was made on the role of ozone (O3) gas treatment on seeds of Lycopersicon esculentum cv. PKM1 (tomato) to release dormancy in advance. The experimental conditions followed a complete factorial design with 3 independent factors, i.e. A faster start of germination in T2 treatment (98% - 99%) was observed than in other treatments (T1, T3 and T4) compared to control seeds by measuring seedling growth rate on 5 day after treatment. Nevertheless a too long th and high concentration of O3 treatment seemed to be penalizing on germination rate whereas low O3 concentration (T2) for a moderate time interval (20 min) seemed to be most beneficial. The treated seeds were stored, checked 1, 3, 6 months later and found that, the seeds have retained their accelerated germination efficiency. In particular, 1T2 (1 month storage), 3T2 (3 month storage) had maximum germination rate among all the stored treated seeds, but