Effect of seed treatment on germination and emergence of 3 warm-season grasses

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 170-174

  Voigt, P W ^a   Tischler, C R ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

2 chloroethanol; establishment; klein grass; seed dormancy; sulfuric acid; weeping lovegrass; wilman lovegrass

Indexed keywords

GERMINATION; SEED DORMANCY; SEED TREATMENT; SEEDLING EMERGENCE;

ERAGROSTIS CURVULA; ERAGROSTIS SUPERBA; PANICUM COLORATUM; POACEAE;

EID: 0030618377     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4002376     Document Type: Article

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