Commercial seed lots exhibit reduced seed dormancy in comparison to wild seed lots of Echinacea purpurea

HortScience

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1843-1845

  Qu, Luping ^a   Wang, Xiping ^a   Chen, Ying ^a   Scalzo, Richard ^a   Widrlechner, Mark P ^b   Davis, Jeanine M ^c   Hancock, James F ^d  

^a Gaia Herbs Inc   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Medicinal plants; Plant selection and breeding; Seed germination

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CULTIVATION; WATER;

MEDICINAL PLANTS; PLANT SELECTION AND BREEDING; SEED GERMINATION;

SEED;

AGRICULTURE; CULTIVATION; SEEDS; WATER;

ECHINACEA PURPUREA;

EID: 24944453123     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.40.6.1843     Document Type: Article

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