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Effects of Environment after Sowing on Viability

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Viability of Seeds

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There have been frequent reviews on the subject of germination. Those reviews by Edwards (1932), Koller, Mayer, Poljakoff-Mayber and Klein (1962), Lang (1965), and Toole, Hendricks, Borthwick and Toole (1956) are especially useful as background reading to this chapter, which is written in an attempt to emphasise those aspects of the environment after sowing where affects on viability appear at present to be of the greatest importance.

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Pollock, B.M. (1972). Effects of Environment after Sowing on Viability. In: Roberts, E.H. (eds) Viability of Seeds. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5685-8_6

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