Effect assessment of some seed priming on yield and seed quality characteristics of Amaranthus hypochondriacus L

In order to study the effect of some seed pretreatment on yield and seed quality characteristics of Amaranthus hypochondriacus L, a trial was concluded using six treatments based on randomized completely block design whit three replication in research field of Urmia university on 2014 cropping season. Treatments were including seed priming of pigeon manure (one in 10), concentrated vaniaz (68.39 precent) (three in 1000) super macro nano chelate fertilizer (three in 1000), magnetic water, homeopathy 6x and control. The seeds were soaked in the solution of listed treatments for eight hours; therefore those were brought to the initial moisture content for 24 hours at 25◦C. seed sown in field and harvested in maturity time. Results showed that pretreatment of magnetic water increased seed yield, biomass yield, phosphorus, oil percent, oil yield, palmitic and stearic fatty acids respectively 22.31, 17.71, 25.5, 20.6, 36.6, 12.7, 22.2 percent compared to the control. The highest value in oleic and linoleic fatty acid was obtained for nano chelat fertilizer. The treatments applied before planting due to the increasing percentage of germination, seedling growth and establishment on-farm create more favorable condition than what occurs in the seedbed after planting. According in current study, using magnetic water and nano chelat pretreatment was lead to yield and quantitative enhancement more than others.