ABSTRACT
Glycine max seeds were grown in soil treated with different concentrations of cadmium to investigate its effect on germination and growth. The experiment lasted for a period of twelve weeks. The experiment consisted of one control and four different treatments with the various concentrations of cadmium being 50mg/kg, 100mg/kg, 150mg/kg and 200mg/kg respectively. Each treatment had four replicates of 5kg soil making a total number of twenty bags. Five seeds were planted in each bag and germination readings was taken for six days after which morphological data, which included plant height, number of leaves, girth, number of leaves lost, number of branches and number of yield were taken. At the end of the germination study, control, 50mg/kg, 100mg/kg, 150mg/kg, and 200mg/kg recorded 84.00±16.73, 70.00±19.15, 55.00±30.00, 75.00±25.82 and 50.00±34.64 % respectively. At the end of the experiment, the values recorded for number of leavesfor control, 50mg/kg, 100mg/kg, 150mg/kg, and 200mg/kg were 21.00±1.65, 21.50±0.65, 22.75±2.63, 20.00±3.82 and 16.00±3.56 respectively and at the same time, the growth in stem girth recorded for control, 50mg/kg, 100mg/kg, 150mg/kg, and 200mg/kg were 1.65±0.06, 1.63±0.10, 1.70±0.08, 1.65±0.09 and 1.50±0.12 respectively.
