Effects of seed maturation time and dry storage on light and temperature requirements during germination in invasive Prosopis juliflora

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 135-143

  El Keblawy, Ali ^a,b   Al Rawai, Awatif ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Desert habitat; Germination; Harvest time; Maternal effect; Seed dormancy; Seed maturation; Storage

Indexed keywords

SEED; STORAGE;

PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS JULIFLORA;

EID: 31144478670     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2005.04.009     Document Type: Article

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