The role of light and temperature in the germination of twenty herbaceous species from the highlands of Ethiopia

Flora

Volumn 193, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 411-423

  Teketay, Demel ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b ETHIOPIAN INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Alternating temperature; Constant temperature; Leaf shade; Light quality; Soil seed bank

Indexed keywords

GERMINATION; HERB; LIGHT EFFECT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0031671861     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0367-2530(17)30867-8     Document Type: Article

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