Overcoming dormancy and enhancing germination of sphaeralcea munroana seeds

HortScience

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1672-1676

  Kildisheva, Olga A ^a   Dumroese, R Kasten ^b   Davis, Anthony S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Germination; Gibberellic acid; Imbibition; Malvaceae; Munro's globemallow; Water gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255209642     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.46.12.1672     Document Type: Article

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