The influence of after-ripening, sodium nitroprusside, potassium ferricyanide, cyanide, paclobutrazol and nitrite on germination of seeds of Nicotiana benthamiana was investigated as well as the influence of plant hormones such as gibberellins and abscisic acid. Dormancy of N. benthamiana seeds was broken by all treatments except treatments with abscisic acid, paclobutrazol and gibberellic acid (GA3). Gibberellins had an interesting effect on dormancy breakage of studied seeds which was dependent on use of particular gibberellin: GA3 or GA4+7. Unlike GA3, GA4+7 had broken seed dormancy.