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Vol.1, No.1, 17-23 (2010) Agricultural Sciences doi:10.4236/as.2010.11003 Effects of different priming treatments and priming durations on germination percentage of parsley (Petroselinum crispum L.) seeds * Atilla Dursun , Melek Ekinci Atatürk University, Agriculture Faculty, Department of Horticulture, Erzurum, Turkey; *Corresponding Author: atilladursun@ Received 16 March 2010; revised 15 April 2010; accepted 20 April 2010. ABSTRACT ing [2,3]. To improve vegetable stand establishment, priming techniques including osmopriming, solid matrix The effects of different priming treatments and priming and hydropriming can be used. Seed priming is priming durations on germination percentage at a pre-sowing physiological seed enhancement treatment different temperatures in parsley seeds were studied. The seeds were treated for 2, 4, 6 and 8 involving the controlled hydration of seeds. Hydration is days with the PEG 6000 (–0.5 MPa, –1.0 MPa and sufficient to allow pregerminative metabolic activation – 1.5 MPa), KNO3 (0.30 mol/L and 0.35 mol/L), to take place, but insufficient to allow radicle protrusion Mannitol (0.50 mol/L and 0.60 mol/L) and hy- through the seed coat [4]. This technique has been used dropriming (12h, 24h, 36h and 48h) and un- in some vegetable seeds to increase the seed vigor, the primed (control). Germination studies were germina