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Unit III
Seed production techniques in commercially important seed spices and other spices –
nursery management, sowing, seed crop management and post-harvest seed handling
and storage techniques.
Unit IV
Seed production in commercially important plantation crops – mother tree selection –
criteria – nursery management, elite seedling production, planting, plantation
management, post-harvest handling and storage techniques.
Unit V
Methods of quality seed production in commercially important medicinal plants –
nursery management, sowing, seed crop management, post-harvest handling and
storage methods.
VII. Practical
• Study on the floral biology and pollination mechanism;
• Identification of seeds of fruits, flowers, spices, plantation and medicinal crops;
• Selection of mother plants and trees – phenotypic characters and genotypic
characters;
• Study on different types of clonal and vegetative propagules;
• Seed and clonal standards of vegetatively propagating crops;
• Germination improvement treatments for seeds and vegetative propagules;
• Study on selection of planting materials and sowing methods;
• Nursery management practices for elite seedling production;
• Seed extraction methods – wet method and dry method;
• Post harvest seed handling – seed grading, upgrading techniques
• Study of seed storage techniques;
• Practicing seed germination enhancement techniques in fruits, spices and
plantation crops;

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• Practicing seed germination enhancement techniques in flowers and medicinal
crops;
• Planning for seed production – economics of seed production in flower crops;
• Visit to mother tree orchard;
• Visit to plantation and orchard.