GERMINATION ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF HYDROPHYLLUM APPENDICULATUM, A MESIC FOREST BIENNIAL
GERMINATION ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF HYDROPHYLLUM APPENDICULATUM, A MESIC FOREST BIENNIAL
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DOI:
10.1002/j.1537-2197.1985.tb08283.x
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发表时间:
1985-02
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
J. Baskin;C. Baskin
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作者:
J. Baskin;C. Baskin
In north central Kentucky, seeds of the mesic forest biennial Hydrophyllum appentliculatum .Michx., are innately dormant at maturity in June. Under natunl and simulated seasonal temperature changes, dormancy break occurred in two stages. Root dormancy was broken by high summer temperatures, and shoot dormancy was broken by low winter temperatures. Consequently, roots emerged from seeds during autumn, and cotyledons emerged the following spring. A 90-day warm (30/15 C) stratification treatment broke root dormancy, but the roots emerged only after transfer to lower temperatures. After the warm stratification treatment, roots emerged from 93, 73, 6 and 9% of the seeds incubated at 5, 15/6, 20/10 and 30/15 C (12/12 hr), respectively. Zero, 28, 56 and 84 days of cold (5 C) stratification of seeds with emerged roots resulted in 9, 21, 49 and 82% cotyledon emergence, respectively, at 20/10 C. Thus, H. appendiculatum exhibits a type of morpho-physiological dormancy known as epicotyl dormancy. Although many seeds germinate the first year, others remain dormant and germinate in successive years until the fourth season after ripening.