Lesquerella seed pretreatment to improve germination

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-69

  Puppala, Naveen ^a,b   Fowler, James L ^b  

^a New Mexico State University Agricultural Science Center at Clovis   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexquerella fendleri; New crops; Oilseed crop; Seed dormancy; Seed treatment

Indexed keywords

DORMANCY; GERMINATION; OIL; SEED;

LESQUERELLA; LESQUERELLA FENDLERI;

EID: 0037235735     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6690(02)00077-8     Document Type: Article

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