Greening of the germinating plumule at chilling temperatures is essential for adaptation to high altitude, or for Chaite rice in Nepal, where the water temperature remains below 20 [degrees] C (Sthapit and Wilson, 1992).

During plant growth five randomly harvesting were done from 45 pots to determine plumule length, radicle length and dry-weight of plumule and radicle.

Radicle and plumule lengths were measured on a scale of five random seedlings per replicate and then averaged.

In addition to, there is a significant difference among different priming duration on rootlet length, plumule length and germination percentage.

The highest inhibitory effect in plumule length was 70.08%, 87.15%, 66.35% and 87.55% at L8, L10, L10 and L10 for Z.

Five seedlings were randomly harvested from each pot to determine plumule length, radicle length and plumule dry-weight of seedlings.

Cells become active and begin to digest and store food which is converted into the soluble form and transported to the radicle and plumule tips e.g.

The sagittal plane is the plane that passes through the centre of both the plumule and the radicle (the first bud/shoot from the embryo and the embryonic root respectively) and divides the embryo into left and right.

The high sensitivity of soybean to mechanical damage is due to the fact that the embryonic axis (radicle, hypocotyl and plumule) is located under a thin coat, which offers little protection (Franca Neto & Henning, 1984).

This was characterized by agglomeration of somatic embryos at different stages (globular, heart, torpedo), followed by germination of the embryos and development of the plumule (shoot), as shown in Figure 3.

Seeds were considered germinated when both the plumule (root) and radical (shoot) were extended to approximately more than 2mm [11].

When the microradiograph of the grain was examined under a microscope, [sup.137]Cs was found to have accumulated around the plumule and radicle, suggesting that [sup.137]Cs was not incorporated into the newly developing tissue itself but instead accumulated in the surrounding meristem tissue.

Improved seedling vigor and plant growth in treatments with seed priming (SP) of MLE, foliar spray (F) and their combination (SP+F) (Table 2) may be owed to the enhanced mobilization of germination related metabolites/inorganic solutes present in MLE (Table 1) to the growing plumule or the increase in amylase activity and reducing sugars of primed seeds (Afzal et al., 2012).

It was also found to be very active on the plumule growth of L.