The role of wheat awns in the seed dispersal unit

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5826, 2007, Pages 884-886

  Elbaum, Rivka ^a   Zaltzman, Liron ^a,b   Burgert, Ingo ^a   Fratzl, Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^b TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; HUMIDITY; SEED DISPERSAL; WHEAT; WIND DIRECTION;

ARTICLE; HUMIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED DISPERSAL; WHEAT;

CELLULOSE; CLIMATE; HUMIDITY; LIGNIN; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PLANT EPIDERMIS; SEEDS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRITICUM;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 34248587768     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1140097     Document Type: Article

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21. We are grateful to M. Feldman for interesting comments and for providing the wheat seeds. Many thanks to S. Lev-Yadun for critical reading of the manuscript and to K Kohl and D. Zerning for the help in growing the plants. R.E. thanks the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a fellowship.