The aim of this research was the evaluate seedlings growth from primed and aged seeds of sorghum under ideal conditions and salt stress. The experiment was a completely randomized design with four replications, following a factorial arrangement of 2x2x3, with eight treatments: two groups of seeds (aged or not), two types of seeds (primed or not) and three growth conditions (0, 100 e 200mM of NaCl). The osmoconditioning of no aged seeds promoted an increase of 25% in the seedling survival under conditions of high salinity (NaCl at 200mM), but when this technique was applied in aged seeds caused 18.8% and 31.3% of increase in the mortality of the seedlings grown in the presence of NaCl at 100 and 200mM, respectively. Regarding to the maintenance of seedling growth, the osmoconditioning provided mitigating the negative effects of salinity (NaCl at 100mM) for seedlings from aged seeds, and this fact is confirmed by the maintenance of plant biomass yield.
Sorghum bicolor; biomass yield; accelerated aging; priming; NaCl
