_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: E-mail: aqsaasgher1234@hotmail.com; Asian Journal of Research in Crop Science 3(1): 1-7, 2019; Article no.AJRCS.47542 ISSN: 2581-7167 Effect of Halopriming along with Hydropriming on Germination of Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Seeds Zeeshan Arif 1 , Aqsa Asgher 2* , Ayesha Zia 3 and Maria Riaz 4 1 Department of Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. 2 Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan. 3 Department of Environmental Science, GC University Faisalabad, Pakistan. 4 Department of Seed Science and Technology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration among all authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/AJRCS/2019/v3i130039 Editor(s): (1) Dr. Rangasamy Anandham, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India. Reviewers: (1) Schirley Costalonga, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil. (2) Dr. Badar-uz-Zaman, National Agriculture Research Centre, Pakistan. Complete Peer Review History: http://www.sdiarticle3.com/review-history/47542 Received 11 November 2018 Accepted 22 February 2019 Published 07 March 2019 ABSTRACT Biotic and abiotic stress effects the crop yield badly every year. In the abiotic factors the drought, heat and salinity are the major stress for crops which are cultivated in Pakistan. Cultivated area are decreasing rapidly because the construction of new buildings, towns and population food demand increasing. There is only one way to fulfill the requirements of population by development stress tolerance genotypes. Two different varieties of wheat (Triticum aestivum L. with AABBDD genome and 6x= 42) i.e. Faisalabad 2008 and Galaxy 2013 were used to evaluate the effect of halopriming along with hydropriming to observe germination parameters and early growth stages. The experiment was conducted in factorial structured treatments design with three replications at Department of Seed Science and Technology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad. For halopriming seeds were soaked in 0.5% KCl, 1% KCl, 1.5% KCl and in distilled water for 6-8 hours. The results showed that final emergence percentage of priming seeds with 1% KCl of Faisalabad 2008 had higher percentage of germination than other treatments. However, for time to start germination there was no difference among KCl priming and hydropriming for both the varieties. Original Research Article