Do soil microbes and abrasion by soil particles influence persistence and loss of physical dormancy in seeds of tropical Pioneers?

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Zalamea, Paul Camilo ^a   Sarmiento, Carolina ^a   Elizabeth Arnold, A ^b   Davis, Adam S ^c   Dalling, James W ^a,d  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Barro Colorado Island; Germination cue; Physical dormancy; Pioneer plants; Seed dormancy loss; Seed persistence; Soil seed bank

Indexed keywords

APEIBA MEMBRANACEA; COCHLOSPERMUM VITIFOLIUM; LUEHEA SEEMANNII; OCHROMA PYRAMIDALE;

EID: 84943815411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00799     Document Type: Article

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