Seed dormancy is a kind of property of many range land and medicinal plant seeds, and experimentation over the past century has identified numerous chemical treatments that will break seed dormancy. Scabbing and hot water treatment break seed dormancy in a range of species. In this research, effects of scabbing and hot water treatment have been studied on Sage plant (salvia verticillata) seeds. Result shoed that Scabbing treatment have effect to improve germination about 20 percent of seed and hot water treatment reduce 14 percent germination of Sage plant (salvia verticillata).
