Priming of Seed: Enhancing Growth and Development

Seed priming is a pre-sowing treatment which leads to a physiological state that enables seed to germinate more efficiently. Priming often involves soaking seed in predetermined amounts of water or limitation of the imbibition time. The imbibition rate could be somehow controlled by osmotic agents such as PEG and referred as osmopriming. Halopriming implies the use of specific salts while