| The tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) seeds are very small. It cause very difficult to sowing. The tobacco seedling are easy infection by pathogens, caused by unevenness of germination. Therefore, this experiment was pelleted of tobacco seeds with different chemical fungicides and tested of pelleted seeds for seed quality and longevity storage. The experiment was conducted at Seed Processing Plant, Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University. The tobacco seeds were pelleted with pumice 150 g. per 3 g. as filler and used hydroxylpropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) at a concentration of 4% by weight as binder. Three types of fungicides were used: metalaxyl, captan and pylaclostrobin. Each type of fungicide was used 2, 4 and 6 g.ai. After that, the pelleted seeds... |
