Seed coating is done for easy handling as well as delivering fungicides, pesticides, herbicides, dyes and bioinoculants. Seed coating can be of two types: it can absorb water, transfer this water to the seed and split exposing the germinating seed or the seed coating can dissolve or disperse freeing the seed.
Seed coating material may comprise of polymers, hemicelluloses, Diatomaceous earth as well as pumice. A safener is added either alone or in combination with the herbicide to protect the seed against potentially harmful chemicals in the soil and to compensate for or reduce the phytotoxic properties of the herbicide
Seed coating using AMF and fungicides is achieved by us by developing unique formulation. It has been observed that AMF coated along with fungicides brings about colonization the same as when coating is done without fungicides. It was also observed that soil drenching with same fungicides reduced AMF colonization.
The effects of fungicide-coated seeds on the establishment of VA mycorrhizal infection. . R. Spokes, D. S. Hayman , D. Kandasamy. Annals of Applied Biology. Volume 115 Issue 2, Pages 237 – 241 (October 1989)
Effect of some fungicides applied as soil drenches on the mycorrhizal infectivity of two cultivated soils and their receptiveness. R. Perrin and C. Plenchette. Crop Protection Volume 12, Issue 2 March 1993, Pages 127-133
Seed coating material may comprise of polymers, hemicelluloses, Diatomaceous earth as well as pumice. A safener is added either alone or in combination with the herbicide to protect the seed against potentially harmful chemicals in the soil and to compensate for or reduce the phytotoxic properties of the herbicide