{"id":971,"date":"2026-06-17T17:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gril-ujkz.com\/index.php\/?p=971"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:28:02","slug":"influence-of-seed-size-and-pretreatments-on-faidherbia-albida-apple-ring-seed-germination-in-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gril-ujkz.com\/index.php\/influence-of-seed-size-and-pretreatments-on-faidherbia-albida-apple-ring-seed-germination-in-burkina-faso\/articles-scientifiques\/06\/","title":{"rendered":"Influence of seed size and pretreatments on Faidherbia albida (apple\u2011ring) seed germination in Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ann\u00e9e<\/strong>\u00a0: 2026<\/p>\n

Revue<\/strong>\u00a0: Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution\u00a0, 73 (79) :\u00a01-13<\/p>\n

Lien de l’article :<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10722-025-02708-1<\/a><\/p>\n

Discipline :<\/strong>\u00a0Sciences biologiques<\/p>\n

Auteur(s) :<\/strong>\u00a0Innocent Charles Emmanuel Traor\u00e9, Bossila S\u00e9raphin Hien, Valaire S\u00e9raphin Ouehoudja Yaro, Alhassane Zar\u00e9, Marie Louise Kabor\u00e9, Blaise Kabr\u00e9, Loyapin Bond\u00e9 & Oumarou Ou\u00e9draogo<\/p>\n

Auteur(s) tagu\u00e9s :<\/strong>\u00a0BONDE Loyapin<\/a>\u00a0OUEDRAOGO Oumarou<\/a><\/p>\n

R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/h2>\n
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Faidherbia albida (Delile) A. Chev. is a key agroforestry species that provides multiple ecosystem services, including soil fertilization, carbon sequestration, and forage production. Despite its ecological importance in climate change mitigation and its vital role for rural communities, natural populations of F. albida are declining due to poor regeneration, inadequate farming practices, and limited access to effective seed pretreatment techniques. This study aimed to assess the effect of seed size and sand scarification on the germination of Faidherbia albida. Seeds were classified into small, medium and large categories and subjected to sulfuric acid (98%), sand scarification and control pretreatment.
\nThe experimental design was a randomized complete block design with two factor (three pretreatments and three seed size categories), each replicated five times. A total of 1,125 seeds were sown in 45 Petri dishes. Seed size had no significant effect (p > 0.05) on germination percentage (74.64 \u00b1 15.11%, 73.17 \u00b1 14.35%, 68.05 \u00b1 13.58% for large, medium,
\nand small seeds, respectively). Indeed, sand scarification was the most effective method for enhancing germination percentage (70.3% for small, 90% for medium, 71.9% for large seeds), although germination occurred later. Acid pretreatment effectively broke-dormancy (55.9% for small, 72.4% for medium, 90% for large seeds) and accelerated time to first germination (8.13\u00b14.13; 8.13\u00b11.01 and 11.2\u00b10.70 days after sowing), but reduced performance in small seeds. Medium seeds responded best to sand scarification, while large seeds performed better under acid pretreatment. These findings highlight the importance of selecting seed size with appropriate pretreatment to optimize germination.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Mots-cl\u00e9s<\/h2>\n

Dormancy, Germination percentage, Scarification, Seed category, Faidherbia albida, West Africa<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ann\u00e9e\u00a0: 2026 Revue\u00a0: Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution\u00a0, 73 (79) :\u00a01-13 Lien de l’article :\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10722-025-02708-1 Discipline :\u00a0Sciences biologiques Auteur(s) :\u00a0Innocent Charles Emmanuel Traor\u00e9, Bossila S\u00e9raphin Hien, Valaire S\u00e9raphin Ouehoudja Yaro, Alhassane Zar\u00e9, Marie Louise Kabor\u00e9, Blaise Kabr\u00e9, Loyapin Bond\u00e9 & Oumarou Ou\u00e9draogo Auteur(s) tagu\u00e9s :\u00a0BONDE Loyapin\u00a0OUEDRAOGO Oumarou R\u00e9sum\u00e9 Faidherbia albida (Delile) A. Chev. is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[38,146,111,144,70,145,39,127],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-scientifiques","tag-alhassane-zare","tag-blaise-kabre","tag-bossila-seraphin-hien","tag-innocent-charles-emmanuel-traore","tag-loyapin-bonde","tag-marie-louise-kabore","tag-oumarou-ouedraogo","tag-valaire-seraphin-ouehoudja-yaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gril-ujkz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gril-ujkz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gril-ujkz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gril-ujkz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gril-ujkz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gril-ujkz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/www.gril-ujkz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gril-ujkz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gril-ujkz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gril-ujkz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}