In order to estimate the germinative performance of seeds of medicinal plants an experiment was performed with a
pretreatment of seeds in vitro culture. The effect of pretreatments (Soaking in water and sulfuric acid ’’SA’’) on the GC
and in vitro germinative performance of the seeds of fourteen medicinal plants namely: Nigella sativa, Lupinus mutabilis,
Ricinus communis, Glycine max, Peganum harmala, Lepidium sativum, Hyoscamus muticus, Petroselinum crispum, Anacyclus
valentinus, Ajuga iva, Salvia hispanica, Sesamum indicum, Eruca sativa and Portulaca oleracea were studied.The seeds of
the plants studied are germinated in the soil firstly and in a Murashig and Skoug (MS) culture medium. Germination
performance (germination capacity’’GC’’ and germination rate’’GR’’) were measured for each treatment. The results
obtained showed that the pretreatments make it possible to demonstrate the germination, and to determine the optimal
pretreatments for each species studied. L. sativum, E. sativa, R. communis, N. sativa, H. muticus, P. harmala, P. crispum
are germinating species easy in the soil, while L. sativum and P. harmala, N. sativa, L. mutabilis, R. communis are species
that require pretreatment with soaking in water. While soaking in SA is necessary for germination of H. miticus and P.
crispum. In MS culture medium, the best GR were observed for all seeds except A. valentinus, A. iva, P. harmala and S.
indicum. The species studied showed a varied behavior with respect to pretreatments at the time of their germination.
Citation
Abdelghani ZEDAM ,
HAMDI Bendif ,
Boubakr HADJ KOUIDER ,
Younes ATEK ,
Fares AISSAT ,
Harir Mohamed, merzouk Yahiaoui, Bahlouli Fayçal, , (2019-04-12), Germinative performance of seeds of 14 species of medicinal plants, Journal of Medicinal Botany,
Vol:3, Issue:, pages:15-24, Journal of Medicinal Botany
