“…Among the twenty varieties, only seven varieties showed maximum seedling length and thirteen showed minimum Seedling length (Table 1). The results are in conformity with findings of (Dharmalingam and Basu, 1978;Khan et al, 1998;Basra et al, 2003) in cotton, (Maity et al, 2000) in mung bean, (Verma et al, 2003) in mustard, (Pallavi et al, 2003) and Khan et al, (2003) in sunflower, The varieties RH30 (2.54), Kranti (2.42), Varuna (2.39), NRCDR601 (2.29) and RH819 (2.25) showed higher seedling dry weight while the varieties NRCHB101 (1.68), RB50 (1.74), RH0119 (1.85), RH0406 (1.83) and RH8113 (1.90) showed lower seedling dry weight. The range of seedling dry weight (mg) accumulation varied from 1.68 to 2.54(mg) with the overall mean value of 2.07.…”