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An experiment was conducted under controlled conditions, in which grains of wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv. Raj-3077) were soaked in 0, 1, 3 and 5 µM aqueous solutions of 28-homobrassinolide (HBR) for 4, 8 and 12 hours. The seedlings raised from the grains pre-treated with HBR possessed significantly higher leaf number, fresh and dry weight·plant−1, nitrate reductase (NR,E.C. 1.6.6.1) and carbonic anhydrase (CA, E.C. 4.2.1.1) activities on 25 and 35 days, after sowing. The soaking of the grains in 3 µM concentration for 8 or 12 hours produced the most vigorous seedlings.
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Hayat, S., Ahmad, A., Hussain, A. et al. Growth of wheat seedlings raised from the grains treated with 28-homobrassinolide. Acta Physiol Plant 23, 27–30 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11738-001-0018-9
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