The seed is an essential unit in commercial crop production. Seed plays a significant role in associating micro-organisms that establish hazardous for new plants created from it. Seed associated pathogens usually harmful for plant health as well as agriculture seed production. Bio-Physical seed treatments alone a substitute to chemical or in combination with a chemical treatment are being used worldwide because of their environmental safety and socio-economic aspects. The seed-borne and early season diseases and insects create devastating consequences if not managed timely. So seed treatment is an economical way to overcome seed-borne diseases, seed treatment gives effective protection from seed associated pathogen until one month from the time of seed treatment, especially during seed germination. Hence Bio-Physical seed treatment and methods using natural crop protection agents/ microbial inoculants could be an alternative to chemical seed treatment methods in crop production.
Sushila Choudhary*
Division of Plant Pathology, RARI, (SKN Agriculture University, Jobner), Durgapura, Jaipur, Rajasthan (302 018), India
Mohit Kumar
DR. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Bihar (848 125), India
Choudhary, S., Kumar, M., 2020. Bio-Physical Seed Treatment: A Cost-Effective Method in Disease Management. Biotica Research Today 2(7), 641-644.
Agrios, G.N. (2005). Plant Pathology. Fifth Edition, Elsevier Academic Press, California, London-U.K. Publisher: Dana Dreibelbis, pp.922.
Harman, G.E. (1991). Seed treatments for biological control of plant disease.Crop Protection 10: 166-171.