Effects of Temperature, Light and Gibberellic Acid on Germination of Nigella damascena L.(Ranunculaceae) Seeds
Water absorption characteristics and effects of temperature,light and GA3 on germination in Nigella damascena seed were investigated.The results showed,that the fresh harvested seeds imbibed rapidly water,with remarkable phase Ⅰ and phase Ⅱ,without water absorption barrier,and that there was a non-deep physiological dormancy and the germination thermoinhibition phenomenon,and they were positively photoblastic seed,and they only germinated less at the constant temperature regimes of 10 ℃ and 15 ℃,and the germination percentage under alternating light regime was significantly higher than that under the dark regime,and that although the germination percentage under the variable temperature regime of 25 ℃/15 ℃ and alternating light conditions was higher,but only (61.5± 7.6) %,and that GA3 solution of 0.1 mmol/L could effectively release the seed dormancy,so that the germination percentage under 15 ℃ and an alternating light regimes was advanced from (33.5±2.2)% to (76.7±7.0) %.