Increased germination of diverse crop-wild hybrid sunflower seeds

Ecological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 845-854

  Mercer, Kristin L ^a,b   Shaw, Ruth G ^a   Wyse, Donald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop wild hybrids; Dormancy; Gene flow; Genetic differentiation; Genetic variation; Germination; Introgression; Sunflower; Transgenic crops

Indexed keywords

CROP PLANT; GENE FLOW; GERMINATION; GROWTH FORM; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHENOLOGY; SEED; SEED DORMANCY; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; CROP; GERMINATION; HYBRIDIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SUNFLOWER;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GERMINATION; HELIANTHUS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC;

HELIANTHUS;

EID: 33746022338     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: 10510761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[0845:IGODCH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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