Determining the best treatment to improve seed germination of Agriophyllum minus plant

In addition to medicinal properties, Agriophyllum minus plant is so important in sand dunes fixation, soil conservation and livestock feeding. According to the germination difficulties, thisstudy investigates seed germination of this plant undercold and halopriming techniques. For this purpose, after applying different cold treatments like control, seed freeze, 20 days continuous cold, alternative cold every 5 days and night cold, the seeds were placed in 3 repeats of 50 seeds in germinator. This experiment was also done with 4 concentration levels of KNO3 (0, 50, 100 and 200 mmol) and 4 time levels (0, 24, 48, 72 hours)with 3 replications using factorial experiments in the form of completely randomizeddesign. Results showed that the cold treatment had a significant effect on germination percentage, daily germination mean, germination index, time of germination mean (p