Effects of physicochemical treatments on the germination properties of seeds of ornamental-medicinal plant (Amaranthus cruentus)

Ornamental Amaranthus (Amaranthus cruentus) is one of the valuable ornamental, medicinal and edible plants .The A. cruentus seeds plant have problem in germination and number of few cultivated seed will germinated. Therefore, in present study the effect of treatments includes: sulfuric acid, freezing, boiling water, wetting and drying, cold and scarification were investigated on break dormancy of this plant seeds and germination percentage and velocity of germination were determined. This study were done based on Completely randomized design experimental design with with 4 replications in Petri-Dish in Germinator. Then, obtained data along the experiment were analyzed using SPSS package (p