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Experimental Studies on the Effects of Certain Growth Regulators on Seed Germination of Stevia Rebaudiana Bertoni

Punja Ram Enkeshwer, Sandhya Tyagi and Harish Kumar Sumariya1

Laboratory of Ecophysiology of Medicinal Plants, Department of Botany, Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur - 310 01 India.

1Department of Agronomy, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur - 313 001 India.

Corresponding Author E-mail: enkeshwer1@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT: Stevia rebaudiana a natural herbal non-caloric sweetener of the family Asteraceae is an endemic species of North Paraguay. Experimental studies were conducted to determine the effect of certain growth regulators in breaking seed dormancy , total percentage of germination and speed of germination.GA3 and IAA gave the most superior results which can be exploited in Stevia cultivation.

KEYWORDS: Plant growth regulators; Seed germination; Stevia rebaudiana.

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