Importance of distribution function selection for hydrothermal time models of seed germination

Weed Research

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 89-101

  Mesgaran, M B ^a,b   Mashhadi, H R ^a   Alizadeh, H ^a   Hunt, J ^b,c   Young, K R ^b,d   Cousens, R D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority   (Australia)

Author keywords

Base water potential; Germination rate; Heliotropium europaeum; Hordeum spontaneum; Hydrotime; Loglogistic; Normal distribution; Phalaris minor; Raphanus raphanistrum

Indexed keywords

GERMINATION; GRASS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WEED;

HELIOTROPIUM; HELIOTROPIUM EUROPAEUM; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. SPONTANEUM; PHALARIS; PHALARIS MINOR; RAPHANUS; RAPHANUS RAPHANISTRUM;

EID: 84874710260     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: 13653180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/wre.12008     Document Type: Article

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