Guayule seed germination under different conditioning treatments

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 60-65

  Jorge, Marçal H A ^a,b   Veatch Blohm, Maren E ^a   Ray, Dennis T ^a   Foster, Michael A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct seeding; Guayule; New crops; Parthenium argentatum; Seed conditioning; Seed quality

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY); WEIGHING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

DIRECT SEEDING; GUAYULE; NEW CROPS; PARTHENIUM ARGENTATUM; SEED CONDITIONING; SEED QUALITY;

SEED;

GERMINATION; PLANT; RUBBER; SEED DORMANCY;

SEEDS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

PARTHENIUM ARGENTATUM;

CROP PRODUCTION; LATEX;

EID: 33646931532     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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