Evaluation of Cardinal Temperature for three Species of Medicinal Plants, Thymus Transcaspicus, Foeniculum Vulgare and Calligonum Junceum

Abstract

<em></em> In order to evaluate cardinal temperatures and optimum thermal range of germination of three medicinal plants including <em>Thymus transcaspicus</em>, <em>Foeniculum vulgare</em> and <em>Calligonumjunceum </em> an experiment was conducted in a Completely Randomized Design with three replications. Therefore, this experiment was conducted to study of the seed germination characteristics to temperature. The we used three medicinal plants with 9 fixed temperatures ( 5⁰C, 10⁰C, 15⁰C, 20⁰C, 25⁰C ,30⁰C, 35⁰C, 40⁰C and 45⁰C) as factorial experiment in the growth chamber. The results showed that the effect of these crops, temperature and their interactions on germination characteristics were significant. The basic, optimum and maximum temperatures were 1.4, 29.93, and 44.66 for <em>Thymus transcaspicus</em>, 3.33, 21.35 and 42.54 for <em>Foeniculum vulgare</em> and 5.23, 33.60 and 45 for <em>Calligonum junceum</em>.