Abstract
Pea seed soaked in distilled water for different intervals (0,12,24,36,48,60 and 72 hours) were irradiated with different doses of gamma irradiation (0, 5, 10 and 15 KR). Lesser period of seed soaking resulted in higher germination and earty flowering than prolonged period of soaking and no soaking (0 hour). Seed soaking treatments for plant height, number of pods/plant, 1OO-seedweight and seed yield/plant were found to be non-significant. Gamma irradiation decreased germination percentage, number of pods/plant, number of seeds per pod and seed yieldlpl~nt while number of days taken for flowering, plant height and too-seed weight were found to increase with the increasing dose of gamma irradiation. Interaction between seed soaking and gamma irradiation treatment was found to be significant for germination percentage and number of seeds/pod suggesting that different seed soaking treatments reacted differently to gamma irradiation
