## 3 Results  
### Change in Germination  
Table 1 shows the initial germination percentage on Day 1 after sowing was significantly reduced for all the stored seeds. After 30 days of storage, non-primed and haloprimed seeds reduced by about 17% and 20%, respectively. Furthermore, after 90 days of storage, hydroprimed and osmoprimed seeds reduced by about 21% and 17%, respectively. The results indicate a delay in the germination recorded on the first day of germination after storage. Furthermore, there was a significant difference between treatments in the initial germination percentage for primed seed, i.e., 85%, 97%, and 88% for hydropriming, halopriming, and osmopriming, respectively, compared to the non-primed 69% at 0 days of storage (Table 1). However, the benefit conferred by seed priming was insignificant after 90 days of storage compared to the non-primed seed (Table 1). The time course of germination percentage over 7 days after sowing for non-primed and primed rice seeds stored for 0-120 days is shown in Figure 1. There was a significant reduction in the germination capacity measured by the final germination percentage on day 7 after sowing for hydroprimed and osmoprimed seeds from 100% recorded for each treatment at 0 days of storage to 93% and 91%, respectively, after 120 days of storage(Figure 1). The reduction in the final germination percentage for haloprimmed seeds from 100% to 95% was not statistically different. Moreover, the changes in the final germination for non-primed seeds through the storage period were also not statistically significant. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c} \hline \hline \multirow{2}{*}{**Treatment**} & \multicolumn{5}{c}{**Storage Period (Days)**} & \multirow{2}{*}{\(p\)**Value**} \\ \cline{2-2} \cline{5-6}  & **0** & **30** & **60** & **90** & **120** \\ \hline Non-primed & 69 \(\pm\) 5 \({}^{\rm\,c\,A}\) & 52 \(\pm\) 4 \({}^{\rm\,b\,B}\) & 53 \(\pm\) 5 \({}^{\rm\,b\,B}\) & 51 \(\pm\) 2 \({}^{\rm\,B}\) & 41 \(\pm\) 10 \({}^{\rm\,B}\) & \textless{}0.001 \\ Hydropriming & 85 \(\pm\) 2 \({}^{\rm\,b\,A}\) & 75 \(\pm\) 6 \({}^{\rm\,a\,AB}\) & 73 \(\pm\) 6 \({}^{\rm\,a\,AB}\) & 64 \(\pm\) 1 \({}^{\rm\,BC}\) & 48 \(\pm\) 8 \({}^{\rm\,C}\) & \textless{}0.001 \\ Halopriming & 97 \(\pm\) 5 \({}^{\rm\,a\,A}\) & 77 \(\pm\) 6 \({}^{\rm\,a\,B}\) & 81 \(\pm\) 5 \({}^{\rm\,a\,AB}\) & 67 \(\pm\) 8 \({}^{\rm\,BC}\) & 53 \(\pm\) 9 \({}^{\rm\,C}\) & \textless{}0.001 \\ Osmoptiming & 88 \(\pm\) 4 \({}^{\rm\,ab\,A}\) & 72 \(\pm\) 4 \({}^{\rm\,a\,AB}\) & 76 \(\pm\) 7 \({}^{\rm\,a\,AB}\) & 71 \(\pm\) 8 \({}^{\rm\,B}\) & 40 \(\pm\) 7 \({}^{\rm\,C}\) & \textless{}0.001 \\ \hline \(p\) value & \textless{}0.001 & 0.001 & 0.001 & 0.007 & 0.277 & \\ \hline \end{tabular} The data shown are the means of the germination percentages \(\pm\) standard deviation. Mean values followed by different letters indicate significant differences (\(p\) \(<\) 0.05) as determined via [PERSON]’s HSD post hoc test. Lowercase letters compare means along columns between treatments within a specific storage period; uppercase letters compare means along rows between different storage period within the same treatment.  
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Table 1: Initial germination (first count on day 1 after sowing) of non-primed and primed seed stored for 120 days after priming. Figure 1: Time course of germination as a percentage over a period of 7 days after sowing for non-primed (**A**), hydroprimed (**B**), haloprimed (**C**), and osmoprimed (**D**) rice seeds stored at 25 \({}^{\rm\,c}\)C/65% RH for 0–120 days. Error bars on the means indicate standard deviation (\(n\) = 3), while * and ** indicate significant difference (\(p\) \(<\) 0.05 and \(p\) = 0.01, respectively) between germination percentage at 0 and 120 days of storage for the initial and final germination as determined via [PERSON]’s HSD post hoc test; “ns” indicates non-significant differences. Furthermore, there was a decline in the \(GI\) for the non-primed and primed seeds due to storage.