Investigation the effect of priming treatments on germination characteristics of Trifolium resupinatum

Germination and seedling establishment are critical and important stages in the life cycle of plants. Therefore, the study of germination and methods of breaking on seed dormancy in plants is of great importance. One of the corrective operations on improving the seed yield of rangeland plants is seed priming. Priming is an operation on the seed that causes the seed to absorb a sufficient amount of water to accelerate the germination process. Trifolium resupinatum is a clover. In this study, in order to germinate seeds from treatments of 100, 200 and 300 mM sodium chloride in 24, 48 and 72 hours, gibberellic acid 125 and 250 ppm during 12, 24 and 48 hours and 0.01 solution, 0.02 and 0.03% of potassium nitrate were used for 12 and 24 hours, respectively. Distilled water was also considered as a control treatment. The study was conducted in a randomized statistical design with 3 replications and two-way analysis of variance was used to analyze the data. Traits such as germination percentage, germination rate, germination index, shoot length, root length, number of germinated seeds, seedling length and seed vigor index were evaluated. The results showed that in the seed germination of Iranian clover species, three chemical treatments had better results in terms of yield of the germination process of the species than other treatments and were recommended as the most desirable pretreatments and potassium nitrate and then acid treatments. Gibberellins had the greatest effect on the seed Dormancy breaking.