Breaking Setaria parviflora seed dormancy by nitrates and light is part of a mechanism that detects a drawdown period after flooding

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-60

  Mollard, Federico P O ^a   Insausti, Pedro ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiologicas y Ecologicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Flooding; Germination; Grassland; Nitrate; Seed dormancy; Wetland

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; FLOODING; GERMINATION; GRASS; GRASSLAND; IMBIBITION; LABORATORY METHOD; LIGHT EFFECT; MESOCOSM; NITRATE; SEED BURIAL; SEED DORMANCY; SEED TREATMENT; WETLAND;

SETARIA (PLANT); SETARIA PARVIFLORA;

EID: 63349093030     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquabot.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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