The application of growth regulators for embryo development stimulation and improving seed germination of two species of the genus Aconitum L. from Vilar biocollection

As medicinal plants aconites have been known since ancient times, they are widely met in Tibetan traditional medicine. Aconitum napellus and Aconitum soongaricum have been previously approved for using in our country. Since 1987 the drugs “Allapinin” on the basis of raw materials from Aconitum leucostomum Worosch. and Aconitum septentrionale Koelle have been manufactured, their seeds are studied in the research. Due to the fact that the seeds of studied Aconite species have an underdeveloped embryo, their germination requires a long period of stratification. For stimulation this process, the influence of various growth regulators on full development of the seed embryo was studied. As a result of researching for each of studied species of Aconite growth regulators were identified, which not only reduce the duration of stratification, but also increase seeds germination. Previously, it was found out that gibberellinic acids had stimulated the development of the embryo, but had not replaced cold stratification...