Soybean is often characterized by hardseededness or seed impermeability, when the seeds do not imbibe water and they germinate very slowly. Germination period of such seeds is very prolonged for a month or more. Hardseededness is caused by reduced water permeability of seed coat. We meet this character in many plant species, but more often in Leguminosae, Rosaceae, Lilium (Chorniy, 1980).