Breaking seed dormancy of some annual Medicago and Trifolium species by different treatments

Turkish Journal of Field Crops

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 72-78

  Can, Ersin ^a   Çeliktaş, Nafiz ^a   Hatipoǧlu, Rüştü ^b   Avci, Süleyman ^a  

^a MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Annual medicago; Hardseededness; Seed germination; Trifolium

Indexed keywords

MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO POLYMORPHA; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM BADIUM; TRIFOLIUM LAPPACEUM; TRIFOLIUM SCABRUM; TRIFOLIUM SPUMOSUM; TRIFOLIUM STRICTUM;

EID: 78649307205     PISSN: 13011111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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