Initial Vegetative Productivity of Seeds – Method for Determination of Their Vigour Index. Estimation of the Vigour of Pepper Seeds

Abstract

By introducing the term initial vegetative productivity of seeds, depending on morphological development of seedlings, on the basis only of the nutrition components of seeds and on the stage that they reached is development equation for calculation of vigour. Method has been tested with natural ageing pepper seeds on age 1 – 10 year and with seeds with different origin of seed production. The data obtained were compared and confirmed by the vigour established through application of other two methods: by Elliot (2001) and vigour of one seeds. The similarity in the trends obtained by three methods for vigour was established. The advantage of the proposed method is that account the vigour is do by larger numbers of parameters involved in the equation and thus the obtained information about whole seed status is highly more detailed and the beginning of the seeds deterioration is registered earlier. This is in contrast of other methods can is achieve only through carried out of one experiment.