Comparison of emergence speed and sterility in two sterile annual hybrid cereal grasses developed for use in restoration

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 678-684

  Morris, Christo ^a   Schupp, Eugene W ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Germination speed; Great basin grasses; Moisture stress; Restoration; Temperature stress

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GERMINATION; GRASS; HYBRIDIZATION; RANGELAND; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; STERILITY;

BROMUS; BROMUS TECTORUM; POACEAE; SECALE; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM SP.;

EID: 70349505962     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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