Effect of storage method on spore viability in five globally threatened fern species

Annals of Botany

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 461-467

  Quintanilla, Luis G ^a   Amigo, Javier ^b   Pangua, Emilia ^a   Pajarón, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Culcita macrocarpa; Dark germination; Dryopteris aemula; Dryopteris corleyi; Dryopteris guanchica; Ex situ conservation; Spore germination; Woodwardia radicans

Indexed keywords

WATER;

FERN; GERMINATION; STORAGE; TEMPERATURE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; DRYOPTERIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FERN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESERVATION; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DRYOPTERIS; FERNS; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; SPORES; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DRYOPTERIS; DRYOPTERIS AEMULA; DRYOPTERIS CORLEYI; FILICOPHYTA; WOODWARDIA; WOODWARDIA RADICANS;

EID: 0036802274     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcf224     Document Type: Article

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