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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="general-sciences" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2278</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>General Sciences</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Impact of Distillery Spentwash Irrigation on Sprouting and Growth of Himalayan Balsam (Balsaminaceae) and Crossandra (Acanthaceae) Flowering plants&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Chandraju</surname><given-names>S.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Thejovathi</surname><given-names>C.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kumar</surname><given-names>C. S. Chidan</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume/><issue/><fpage>95</fpage><lpage>103</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Germination of Himalayan Balsam (Balsaminaceae) and Crossandra (Acanthaceae) seeds was made by irrigated with distillery spentwash of different concentrations. The spentwash i.e., primary treated spentwash (PTSW), 1:1, 1:2, and 1:3 spent wash were analyzed for their plant nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and other physical and chemical characteristics. Experimental soil was tested for its chemical and physical parameters. Himalayan Balsam and crossandra seeds were sowed in different pots and irrigated with raw water (RW), 1:1, 1:2 and 1:3 spentwash. The nature of germination of seeds was studied. It was found that, the germination was very good (100%) in 1:3 SW irrigation, while very poor (25%) in 1:1 SW, moderate (80%) in 1:2 SW and 95% in RW irrigations.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Distillery spentwash</kwd><kwd> Himalayan Balsam </kwd><kwd> Crossandra </kwd><kwd> Germination</kwd><kwd> Growth</kwd><kwd> Irrigation</kwd><kwd> Soil.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
