Response of Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) Seed Germination under Cadmium Nitrate Stress to Salicylic Acid Priming

Khadijeh Badpa; Mohsen Movahhedi Dehnavi; Alireza Yadavi

Response of Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) Seed Germination under Cadmium Nitrate Stress to Salicylic Acid Priming

2016

Khadijeh Badpa | Mohsen Movahhedi Dehnavi | Alireza Yadavi

To evaluate the interaction of Cd and SA on seed germination of Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L. cv. Soffe), this experiment was carried out as a factorial based on CRD with four replications in 2012, in Yasouj University seed lab. Factors included of four levels of seed priming with SA (0, 0.3, 0.6, and 0.9 mM) and eight levels of cadmium nitrate (0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35 mM). In all Cd treatments, SA 0.9 mM had maximum germination percentage (84% in 0 mM Cd) and rate (6.58 seed day-1 in 5 mM Cd), radical length (4.21 cm in 0 mM Cd) and stem (3.29 cm in 0 mM Cd), radical dry mater (2.25 mg in 0 mM Cd), shoot dry matter (0.94 mg in 0 mM Cd) and seed vigor index (6.30 in 0 mM Cd). Generally, seed priming with SA decreased the impact of Cd on seed germination and SA 0.9 mM was the best treatment.

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