Claim · model-written summary
Acid scarification with H 2 SO 4 was the best pretreatment for P. sprucei germination, reaching 62%.
- Taxon
- P. sprucei
Podocarpus spruceie0 - Treatment
- acid scarification of H 2 SO 4e0
- Outcome
- germinatione0
- Direction
- beste0
- Value
- 62%e0
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Verbatim
e0“the best pregerminative treatment to stimulate germination in P. sprucei (62%) and V. triphyllum (80%) was acid scarification of H 2 SO 4”
Title
Denis Sarmiento V.; Alberto Macancela-Herrera; Gabriela Piña R.; et al. Bosque (Valdivia) 2025. doi:10.4067/s0717-92002025000300273
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Clusia sp. showed neither acquiescence nor dormancy.
- Observation P. sprucei showed endogenous acquiescence and morphological dormancy.
- Observation V. triphyllum showed exogenous/endogenous and morphophysiological dormancy.
- Intervention effect Acid scarification with H 2 SO 4 was the best pretreatment for V. triphyllum germination, reaching 80%.
- Intervention effect Hot stratification at 30C increased Clusia sp. germination to 89%.
- Intervention effect Hot stratification at 40C increased V. triphyllum germination to 82%.