Threshold modelling Lolium multiflorum seed germination: Effects of Neotyphodium endophyte infection and storage environment

Seed Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-62

  Gundel, P E ^a,b   Martinez Ghersa M A ^a   Ghersa, C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; LOLIUM; LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM; NEOTYPHODIUM; POACEAE;

EID: 84861034926     PISSN: 02510952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15258/sst.2012.40.1.06     Document Type: Article

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