COLOR AND ACCELERATED AGING ON SEED VIABILITY AND VIGOR OF BEAN AND COWPEA

• Main Author: Meksy Dianawati
• Format: Article
• Language: Indonesian
• Published: Universitas Janabadra 2014-01-01
• Series: Jurnal Pertanian Agros
• Subjects: bean; cowpea; seed
• Online Access: http://e-journal.janabadra.ac.id/index.php/JA/article/view/189/162
• ISSN: 1411-0172; 2528-1488

Seed quality includes four qualities i.e. physical, physiological, genetical, and pathological quality. In terms of physical quality of seed, color can be used as indicators of quality of seed physiology, because color is very easily observed visually by the seed users. The goal of this study was to determine the effect of seed color and accelerated aging on viability and seed vigor of bean and cowpea. This research was conducted in November 2010 at the Seed Technology Laboratory and Physics Laboratory, Bogor Agricultural University. This study used split plot design with a randomized completed block design which the main plot was seed color and the subplot was accelerated aging. The main plot consisted of two seed color treatments on bean and three on cowpea, while the subplot consists of of three accelerated aging levels i.e. 2 days, 1 day, and 0 day. Each treatment consisted of three replications and each replication was taken 25 seeds samples. The results showed that accelerated aging could detect viability and vigor bright bean seeds early. Dark cowpea seeds have lower germination rate and maximum growth potential lower than medium and light seeds. The longer accelerated aging, the lower viability and vigor seed on cowpea.