Water uptake by seeds in yellow-seeded soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) cultivars with contrasting imbibition behaviors

Plant Production Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 415-422

  Nakayama, Norikazu ^a   Komatsu, Setsuko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CROP SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flooding injury; Imbibition damage; Seed coat; Seed hydration; Seed moisture content; Soybean

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 52149084534     PISSN: 1343943X     EISSN: 13491008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1626/pps.11.415     Document Type: Article

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