In vitro determination of drought tolerance capacity on cereals and pulses

Abstract Drought is one of the most important and naturally occurring disasters on the agricultural land. Many of the framer does not cultivate the crop because of drought condition leads to the improper growth and development of crops. To avoid drought, water is an essential environmental factor, for the growth of crop from seed germination to the various stages of the growth of crops. By our experiment, PEG use as to create a drought condition is acting a controlling water potential in seed germination. Drought stress inhibits the hypocotyl length, it affects the root, shoot length, significantly reduced the germination parameters and seedling related traits. Ion availability of the crop changes and decrease in the drought condition. It was concluded that the inhibition in germination at equivalent water potentials of PEG was mainly due to an osmotic effect