A local dormancy cline is related to the seed maturation environment, population genetic composition and climate

Annals of Botany

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 937-945

  Fernández Pascual, Eduardo ^a   Jiménez Alfaro, Borja ^a,b   Caujapé Castells, Juli ^c   Jaén Molina, Ruth ^c   Díaz, Tomás Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Departamento de Biodiversidad Molecular y Banco de ADN de la Flora Canaria   (Spain)

Author keywords

Centaurium somedanum; clinal variation; common garden; ecophysiology; endemic; Gentianaceae; germination; ISSR; PCoA; plant climate interactions; seed dormancy; seed ecology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ECOTYPE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MATURATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEED DORMANCY;

EID: 84883252966     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct154     Document Type: Article

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