Influence of light, temperature, salinity and storage on seed germination of Haloxylon ammodendron

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 453-464

  Huang, Zhenying ^a   Zhang, Xinshi ^a   Zheng, Guanghua ^b   Gutterman, Yitzchak ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cold storage; Light; Recovery of germination; Seed germination; Soil salinity; Temperature; Ultra dry storage

Indexed keywords

GERMINATION; LIGHT; SALINITY; SEED; STORAGE; TEMPERATURE;

CHINA;

HALOXYLON AMMODENDRON;

EID: 0043288693     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-1963(02)00294-X     Document Type: Article

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