IMPROVING SEED-GERMINATION OF AQUILEGIA-CHRYSANTHA BY TEMPERATURE MANIPULATION Academic Article

abstract

• Seeds of Aquilegia chrysantha Gray were germinated under a variety of temperature regimes. Germination was nearly 90% under a day/night cycle of 25/20C, but was reduced to 40% under constant 25C or a 25/10C day/night cycle. With days between 25 and 29C (night = 20C), germination percentage dropped gradually to 60% with increasing temperature. With days >29C, germination declined dramatically such that no germination occurred at 31C. Neither kinetin (4.6 to 46 m) nor ethephon (6.9 to 207 m) was able to reverse the inhibitory effects of 33C days. Our results indicate that germination of A. chrysantha seed is sensitive to temperature and that germination 75% can be obtained under a 25 to 27C day/20C night regime. Chemical names used: 2-chloroethylphosphonic acid (ethephon); 6-furfurylaminopurine (kinetin).

authors

• Davis, Tim

published proceedings

• HORTSCIENCE

author list (cited authors)

• DAVIS, T. D., SANKHLA, D., SANKHLA, N., UPADHYAYA, A., PARSONS, J. M., & GEORGE, S. W.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• DAVIS, TD||SANKHLA, D||SANKHLA, N||UPADHYAYA, A||PARSONS, JM||GEORGE, SW

publication date

• August 1993

publisher

• American Society For Horticultural Science  Publisher

published in

• Hortscience  Journal

keywords

• Ethephon
• Kinetin
• Ornamentals
• Propagation
• Thermodormancy

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.21273/HORTSCI.28.8.798

start page

• 798

end page

• 799

volume

• 28

issue

• 8

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.28.8.798