S. surattense

Solanum surattense is an important constituent of well known Ayurvedic drug “Dasmula” and “Arkadhi”. All plant parts are used in Ayurveda. The seed paste is applied on toothache and seed powder is smoked in asthma. The plant is very prickly diffuse, procumbent, often becomes perennial reaching a spread of a meter or so under luxuries conditions., Three types of flower bearing plants i.e. dark purple, light purple and white were observed, which differs in their density and colour. The density of white-flowered plants is very low and rarely found in natural habitats. In the present investigations, fresh seeds of S. surattense showed maximum germination percentage, root and shoot lengths with 5 mg l-1 GA3, while one year old seeds showed in 50 mg l-1 GA3.The results of Germination value and Vigour Index did not show any definite trend.