Features of Natural and Clonal Reproduction of Matthiola Daghestanica (Brassicaceae)

The article presents preliminary results of field, laboratory and biotechnological methods, assessment of seed and vegetative micropropagation (Matthiola daghestanica (Conti) N. Busch) – an endemic and rare species of the Eastern Caucasus, listed in the Red Book of the Republic of Dagestan. Seeds of the Matthiola daghestanica are characterized by differences in germination in field (assessed using the USI “System of experimental bases located along an altitudinal gradient” and Collection of living open ground plants of the Mountain Botanical Garden of the Dagestan Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and laboratory (for four seed fractions differing in color) conditions and in vitro. The conditions for introducing Matthiola daghestanica into in vitro culture and its micropropagation using different types of explants have been determined.