Study the effect of several factors on seed germination of Sophora japonica and Sophora secundiflora


Abstract in English

The research was conducted in the ornamental plants laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, to determine the best seed germination conditions of Sophora japonica and S. secundiflora. Different seed pre-treatments (cold ater (6oC) and warm water (50oC) immersing, Citric acid (2%) and Sulphoric acid (25, 50%) stratification) were experimented. The effect of different culture mediums and sowing times were also investigated. The results indicated that the chemical pre-treatments represented the highest relative germination rates compared to the physical pre-tretments. Among the physical pretreatment, the seed immersed in hot water for 2h showed the highest germination percentage (38,6 – 30%) for S. japonica and S. secundiflora respectively. While, the seed treated with sulphoric acid represented the best germination percentage for the tow species (58,3 – 63,6%). Nevertheless, the increase of the sulphoric acid concentration had a negative impact on survival plantlet rates for the tow species, specially for S. japonica. The results showed that the seed sowing in sand with soil and organic mature (1:1:1) medium realized the best germination percentage for the tow studied species.

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