https://journalajee.com/index.php/AJEE/issue/feedAsian Journal of Environment & Ecology2024-03-06T07:36:32+00:00Asian Journal of Environment & Ecologycontact@journalajee.comOpen Journal Systems<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology (ISSN: 2456-690X)</strong> aims to publish high quality papers (<a href="https://journalajee.com/index.php/AJEE/general-guideline-for-authors">Click here for Types of paper</a>) in all areas of ‘Environment and Ecology’. By not excluding papers based on novelty, this journal facilitates the research and wishes to publish papers as long as they are technically correct and scientifically motivated. The journal also encourages the submission of useful reports of negative results. This is a quality controlled, OPEN peer-reviewed, open-access INTERNATIONAL journal.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>NAAS Score: 4.76 (2024)</strong></p>https://journalajee.com/index.php/AJEE/article/view/543Pre-Sowing Treatments on Seeds of Forest Tree Species to Overcome the Germination Problems2024-03-06T07:36:32+00:00Manish KumarS. Sarvadesomanath553@gmail.comRaj KumarAbhishek Kumar<p>Production of the quality planting material has got more emphasis under sub-mission on agroforestry (SMAF) with aiming to increase tree cover outside the forest area. Establishment of the tree species depends on the quality of the planting material, available soil, water for irrigation and the adopted protection measures. Most of the tree species get problem with germination of seed due to external and internal factors and causes seed dormancy. Different kind of pre-sowing treatments were tested and applied for the different kind of tree species by researchers of the forestry. Scarification (mechanical, acid), water soaking (hot/cold), the application of chemicals and plant growth regulators, or alternate wetting and drying prior to sowing effectively break seed dormancy and improve seed germination for producing required quality planting material. Auxins (IAA, IBA, 2-4D, 4-CPA), Gibberellic acid (GA<sub>3</sub>), Cytokinins (Kinetin, Zeatin, Benzyl adenine), Ethylene (Etheral) and Abscisic acid (Dormins, Phaseic Acid) are plant growth regulators also used in different concentrations for improving tree seed germination.</p>2024-03-06T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 Author(s). The licensee is the journal publisher. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.