Predicting germination response of four cool-season range grasses to field-variable temperature regimes

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 209-217

  Hardegree, S P ^a   Van Vactor, S S ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Germination rate; Predictive model; Seed germination

Indexed keywords

GERMINATION; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE;

GERMINATION; MODEL; PREDICTION; TEMPERATURE;

ELYMUS ELYMOIDES; ELYMUS LANCEOLATUS; POA SANDBERGII; PSEUDOROEGNERIA SPICATA;

EID: 0033047467     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-8472(99)00004-0     Document Type: Article

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