The effect of liquiid vermicompost on salt stress during germination and seedling of Hungarian vetch (Vicia pannonica)plants

In this study, the alleviating aspects of liquid vermicompost on the germination and seedling growth of Hungarian vetch, which is an important fodder plant in Turkey and in the world, under salt stress and the first stage of its development were evaluated. For this purpose, two experiments in laboratory and greenhouse conditions were established according to a randomized plot design with three replications. In the experiments, liquid vermicompost prepared at control (0%) - 1% - 2.5% - 5% and 10% levels and pure water (control), salt solutions prepared at 30 mM, 60 mM and 90 mM NaCl doses were used. At the end of the laboratory experiment, germination rate and index of Hungarian vetch seeds, length, fresh and dry weights, and radicle length, fresh and dry weights of plumule were determined. In the greenhouse experiment, the emergence ratio, seedling height, seedling fresh and dry weights, root length, root fresh and dry weights of Hungarian vetch were found out. As a result of the study, it was observed that the parameters measured in the germination and seedling period of Hungarian vetch were negatively affected by salt stress, but the negative effects of salt stress decreased due to the increase in the amount of liquid vermicompost applied.