Claim · model-written summary
Long dry-storage germinability may aid urban distribution.
- Taxon
- Briza maxima
Briza maximat0 - Outcome
- distribution in urbanized arease0
- Direction
- increasee0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The seed germinability for long time under dry condition was considered possible to increase the distribution in urbanized areas”
t0“Briza maxima”
Title
The seed germination of Briza maxima (Poaceae) for exotic plants and the distribution in Japan
Yumiko KANAZAWA; Sho NOGUCHI; Hiroaki NAKAJIMA; et al. Journal of The Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture 2014. doi:10.5632/jila.77.623
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Seed germination was very low for three months after collection.
- Observation The seeds showed photoblastism.
- Observation Many seeds germinated in light and darkness after four months.
- Observation Germination exceeded 50% nine months after collection.
- Intervention effect GA3 promoted germination of initially dormant seeds.
- Intervention effect Seeds germinated well at 10 to 25℃, except at 30℃.
- Intervention effect Dry stored seeds retained over 50% germination after 16 years.
- Observation Seeds were orthodox and retained germinability under dry storage.
- Observation The plants occur in the Pacific belt zone of Japan.