Effect of Seed Priming on Enhancement of Seed Germination and Seedling Growth of Annual Sainfoin (Onobrychis crista-galli (L.) Lam.) in Medium and Long-term Collections of Gene Bank

Subject Areas : Seed Science and Technology

Azadeh Kavandi ¹ , Ali Ashraf Jafari ² , Mojtaba Jafarzadeh ³

1 - agricultural faculty, Islamic Azad University,Saveh , Iran
2 - Professor, Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran
3 - Faculty of Agriculture, Islamic Azad University, Brojerd Branch, Brojerd Iran

Received: 2017-05-14 Accepted : 2017-06-28 Published : 2018-04-01

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