The effect of an aqueous extract of seeds of Lupinus polyphyllus Lindl., naturalized on the Kola peninsula, on Allium cepa

Lupinus polyphyllus Lindl is a perennial herbaceous plant widely distributed in the Northeastern states of USA, Canada, Europe, Argentina and New Zealand. This on Kola Peninsula. L. contains alkaloids, main which are lupanine, lupinine, sparteine. The aim study was to determine cytotoxicity aqueous extracts seeds studied their effect biomass growth by Allium-test method. It found that solutions polyphillus extract concentrations 5 – 0.1325 %v/v doesn’t have an inhibitory mitosis A. cepa root meristem cells but statistically significant stimulating concentration 5% v/v.