Effect of Diurnal Fluctuating versus Constant Temperatures on Germination of 445 Species from the Eastern Tibet Plateau

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Kun ^a   Baskin, Jerry M ^b   Baskin, Carol C ^b,c   Bu, Haiyan ^a   Du, Guozhen ^a   Ma, Miaojun ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMINATION; GRASSLAND; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PLANT REGENERATION; PLANT RESPONSE; PLANT SEED; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 84880828228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069364     Document Type: Article

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