Seed dormancy-breaking in a cold desert shrub in relation to sand temperature and moisture

Eremosparton songoricum (Litv.) Vass. (Fabaceae, Papilionoideae) is a perennial semi-shrub, inhabiting the cold desert. Freshly matured seeds of E. songoricum have physical dormancy (PY). In this study, we determined whether seeds of E. songoricum exhibit seasonal periodicity of seed germination and the relationship between seed dormancy break and soil temperature and moisture. To our knowledge this is the first study to document seasonal periodicity in seed germination in a cold desert species with PY and to identify the mechanism (at the whole-seed level) of its occurrence.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  AoB Plants

• Publication date

  2017-01-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/aobpla/plx003PMID 28122736PMCID 5402525
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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