Effect of light on seed germination of eight wetland Carex species

Annals of Botany

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 869-874

  Kettenring, Karin M ^a   Gardner, Gary ^a   Galatowitsch, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carex; Far red light; Photomorphogenesis; Phytochrome; Prairie wetland; Red light; Sedge; Seed germination ecology; White light

Indexed keywords

PHYTOCHROME;

DARK; GERMINATION; LIGHT EFFECT; PRAIRIE; REVEGETATION; SEDGE; SEED BANK; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CYPERACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GERMINATION; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CAREX PLANT; ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; LIGHT; PHYTOCHROME; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CAREX; CAREX BREVIOR; CAREX COMOSA; CAREX GRANULARIS; CAREX HYSTERICINA; CAREX STIPATA; CAREX VULPINOIDEA;

EID: 33749618117     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcl170     Document Type: Article

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