Viability and sunlight sensitivity of oak pollen and its implications for pollen-mediated gene flow

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 154-161

  Schueler, Silvio ^a   Schlünzen, Katharina Heinke ^b   Scholz, Florian ^a  

^a Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluorescein diacetat reaction; Mesoscale atmospheric model; Pollen germination; Quercus robur; Simulation of pollen dispersal

Indexed keywords

GENES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

GENE FLOW; IN VITRO GERMINATION; POLLEN DISTRIBUTION; POLLEN VIABILITY;

FORESTRY;

GENES; GERMINATION; PARAMETERS; POLLEN; QUERCUS; SENSITIVITY; SUN LIGHT;

QUERCUS; QUERCUS ROBUR;

EID: 14644398003     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-004-0376-1     Document Type: Article

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