Challenges Facing Seed Banks and Agriculture in Relation to Seed Quality

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 773, Issue , 2011, Pages 17-40

  Rodríguez, M Verónica ^a   Toorop, Peter E ^b   Benech Arnold, Roberto L ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiologicas y Ecologicas   (Argentina)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation; Crops; Preharvest sprouting; Seed deterioration; Seed dormancy; Seed storage; Wild species

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; AGRICULTURE; BIOME; CROP PRODUCTION; DETERIORATION; DORMANCY; GERMINATION; GERMPLASM; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; SEED DORMANCY; SEED QUALITY; SEED STORAGE; SPROUTING; WILD SPECIES; ARTICLE; CEREAL; CROP; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORDEUM; SEEDLING; SORGHUM; SUNFLOWER;

CEREALS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENOTYPE; GERMINATION; HELIANTHUS; HORDEUM; SEED DORMANCY; SEEDLING; SEEDS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SORGHUM;

EID: 80054774311     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-231-1_2     Document Type: Chapter

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