Reflections on investigating dormancy-breaking chemicals - A balance of logic and luck

Weed Science

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 261-266

  Cohn, Marc A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dormancy breaking chemicals; Germination; Seed dormancy

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; GERMINATION; SEED DORMANCY; YEAST;

ORYZA RUFIPOGON;

EID: 33646246638     PISSN: 00431745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1614/0043-1745(2002)050[0261:ROIDBC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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