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ABSTRACT
This study was conducted to determine the effect of nanoparticles (silver, magnesium chloride and calcium chloride) on seed (corn and tomato) germination. Moringa leaves were used as plant extract to synthesize the salts by the process of phytosynthesis and the characterization was done by spectrophotometer which was done from wavelength 300nm – 500nm for 3 days. The absorbance peak was recorded at 400nm for all the nanoparticles. The observation of growth of the seeds was known by the presence of radicles and growth was observed after 48hours. Effect of silver nanoparticles on germination percentage on corn and tomato seeds were most significant on seeds soaked for one and half hour at a 100%, and for the effect of calcium chloride nanoparticles had more significant germination growth on tomato seeds compared to magnesium chloride, while magnesium chloride had more germination growth compared to calcium chloride o on corn seeds. According to these results, the germination of maize and tomato seeds was adversely affected by these nanoparticles when compared to the control. I think additional research using various salt concentrations utilized to make the nanoparticles would produce a more encouraging outcome.
