Germination of dimorphic seeds of the desert annual halophyte Suaeda aralocaspica (Chenopodiaceae), a C4 plant without Kranz anatomy

Annals of Botany

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 757-769

  Wang, Lei ^a,d   Huang, Zhenying ^a   Baskin, Carol C ^b,c   Baskin, Jerry M ^b   Dong, Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Borszczowia; Cold desert halophyte; Physiological seed dormancy; Seed germination; Suaeda

Indexed keywords

CARBON; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANATOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DESERT; DICOTYLEDON; DIMORPHISM; GERMINATION; HALOPHYTE; HORMONE; MORPHOLOGY; SALINITY; SEED DORMANCY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DESERT CLIMATE; DRUG EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; GOOSEFOOT; HALOPHYTE; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARBON; CHENOPODIACEAE; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SALINITY; SALT-TOLERANT PLANTS; SEEDS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TEMPERATURE;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; BORSZCZOWIA; NIGELLA SATIVA; SUAEDA;

EID: 54249152753     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcn158     Document Type: Article

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