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Seed features, germination and seed bank

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Most parasitic weeds produce a large number of seeds per single plant. In context with the requirement for the stimulation of germination this high reproduction forms part of their strategy to survive. Before the last decade, little attention was paid to the reproductive capacity of these weeds, and numerous recent papers refer to non-realistic data on their seed production.

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Linke, K.H., Oswald, A., Ransom, J.K., Hess, D.D., Kachelriess, S., Kranz, B. (2001). Seed features, germination and seed bank. In: Kroschel, J. (eds) A Technical Manual for Parasitic Weed Research and Extension. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0005-5_4

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