Germinating seeds of wildflowers, an ecological perspective

HortTechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 467-473

  Baskin, Carol C ^a   Baskin, Jerry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dormancy cycles; Key to dormancy classes; Morphophysiological dormancy; Move along experiment; Physical dormancy physiological dormancy; Seed dormancy

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 12144257094     PISSN: 10630198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/horttech.14.4.0467     Document Type: Review

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