Affiliation:
1. IAPAR. Instituto Agronômico do Paraná, Brazil
Abstract
Abstract: Rangpur lime is the most commonly used rootstock in Brazil, and its propagation occurs through seeds. Currently, no methodology is described in the prescriptions of the Rules for Seed Testing to perform the germination test of Rangpur lime. Thus, this research aimed to study the dynamics of germination in Rangpur lime seeds according to the Weibull distribution under the effect of different temperatures and lots. The experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design, with treatments arranged in a 3 × 5 factorial scheme (temperatures of 25, 30 and 35 °C for the germination test and five seed lots, respectively) and four replications. The percentage of germination, the number of days required obtaining 50% of germination, and the parameters of the Weibull equation were determined. The optimum temperature for germination of Rangpur lime seeds was 30 °C, with the first and last counts at 21 and 30 days after test installation, respectively. The germination process can be described by the three-parameter Weibull cumulative distribution function.
Subject
Agronomy and Crop Science
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