Increasing the temperature of the water soak preceding moist-chilling promotes dormancy-termination of seeds of western white pine (Pinus monticola Dougl.)

Seed Science and Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 275-288

  Feurtado, J A ^a   Xia, J H ^b   Ma, Y ^a   Kermode, A R ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Woodmere Nursery   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONTICOLA; PINUS MONTICOLA;

EID: 1442337026     PISSN: 02510952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15258/sst.2003.31.2.05     Document Type: Article

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