Seed viability and dormancy of 17 weed species after 19.7 years of burial in Alaska

Weed Science

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 464-470

  Conn, Jeffery S ^a   Beattie, Katherine L ^a   Blanchard, Arny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Buried seed; Logarithmic model; Seed longevity; Subarctic; Weed seed decline

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; GERMINATION; GRASS; LONGEVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEED DORMANCY; SOIL DEPTH; WEED;

ALASKA; FAIRBANKS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANANAS COMOSUS; AVENA FATUA; CALAMAGROSTIS; CALAMAGROSTIS CANADENSIS; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; DESCURAINIA SOPHIA; DRACOCEPHALUM PARVIFLORUM; ELYMUS REPENS; GALEOPSIS (ANGIOSPERM); HORDEUM JUBATUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; MATRICARIA MATRICARIOIDES; POLYGONACEAE; POLYGONUM PENSYLVANICUM; RORIPPA PALUSTRIS; SPERGULA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33750339233     PISSN: 00431745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1614/WS-05-161R.1     Document Type: Article

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