Higher seed size and germination rate may favour autotetraploids of Vicia cracca L. (Fabaceae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 57-73

  Eliášová, Anežka ^a   Münzbergová, Zuzana ^a,b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Biomass; Common garden experiment; Dormancy; Germination phenology; Gigas effect; Growth; Height; Polyploid; Population variation; Seedling

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BIOMASS; GERMINATION; HABITAT TYPE; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; LEGUME; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POLYPLOIDY; SEED DORMANCY; SEED SIZE;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

FABACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; VICIA; VICIA CRACCA;

EID: 84906319006     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12318     Document Type: Article

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