Evaluation on seed and seedling quality characters of Jatropha curcas Gurunathan N.1,*, Srimathi P.2 1National Research Centre for Agroforestry, Jhansi-284003, India 2Dept. of Seed Science & Tech., Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India *Corresponding author E-mail: guruforester@gmail.com
Online published on 21 July, 2012. Abstract Jatropha seeds collected from sixteen different locations were evaluated for physical and physiological seed quality characters including fruit set percentage for identification of suitable seed production area. It revealed that Odukkampalayam of Coimbatore district have got the potentiality for development as seed production area. The seeds of this location recorded higher seed and seedling quality characters including storability compared to other locations. In addition these seeds also found to posses higher seed to kernel ratio and higher oil content. Top Keywords Germination, Jatropha, Oil content, Seed production area, Seedling quality. Top |