Contribution to the Flora of Central-Southern Dhofar (Sultanate of Oman)

Mosti, Stefano; Raffaelli, Mauro; Tardelli, Marcello

doi:10.1080/00837792.2012.10670909

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“…This plant is flowering from January to March (Karim & Fawzi, 2007). Crotalaria persica is considered as a forage species and serves as a medicinal plant (Mosti et al, 2012).…”

Section: Plant Speciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Quantitative Assessment of Germination Parameters: the Case of and

Al-Ansari¹,

Ksiksi²

2016

Open Ecol. J.

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Abstract:The present investigation attempted to assess the impact of seed pre-treatments on the germination of Crotalaria persica (Burm. f.) Merr and Tephrosia apollinea (L) Pers. Equally important was our investigation to quantitatively compare different germination parameters used for seed germination studies. The results showed that the final germination was highest for both species under chipping (CHIP), sand paper (SP) and 20 to 90 minutes in concentrated sulfuric acid (SA20 to SA90). Rubbing in sand (SAND) and water-soaking (SOAK) showed lower germination percentages. Mean germination time (MGT) was highest after 50 minutes in sulfuric acid (SA50) for both C. persica and T. apollinea. The coefficient of velocity of germination (CVG) was highest when seeds were treated with sulfuric acid during 30 minutes (SA30) for C. persica (56.1%) and during 60 minutes (SA60) for T. apollinea (66.8%). For the germination index (GI), chipping and all SA exposures (except 90 minutes) revealed high means for both C. persica and T. apollinea, while SP also resulted in high germination index for C. persica. The mean rate of seed germination was highest under sand rubbing and distilled water (0.9 and 0.8, respectively) for C. persica and under SA20 (1.3), for T. apollinea. The germination rate index (GRI) for C. persica was highest under CHIP, SP, and SA20 to SA60. Timson Germination Index (TGI) showed high values for most pre-treatments.The highest TGI recorded was 45.6% for SA30. As for the correlation between the germination parameters, it is recommended that final germination percent coupled with germination index are used as germination parameters. They do not require complex calculations, while they complement each other in giving a representative evaluation of seed germination.

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“…This plant is flowering from January to March (Karim & Fawzi, 2007). Crotalaria persica is considered as a forage species and serves as a medicinal plant (Mosti et al, 2012).…”

Section: Plant Speciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Quantitative Assessment of Germination Parameters: the Case of and

Al-Ansari¹,

Ksiksi²

2016

Open Ecol. J.

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“…Therefore, sink tests were conducted on all of the seeds used in the various trials of this research experiment to examine which seeds sank because they contained embryos. In order to mimic the naturally more humid coastal mountain growth environs, which can be affected by seasonal southwest monsoons from the Arabian Sea, some trials were conducted using terrariums in the K. Ketura greenhouse (Mosti et al, 2012). In addition to control sets of seeds being planted in open air trays, another trial utilized B. sacra leaf litter in an attempt to lower the pH of the water to 5.5, which has been shown to stimulate nutrient absorption and germination (Eslamieh, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

Increasing Boswellia sacra seeds’ germination viability and genetic variability utilizing various methods

Swartout¹,

Solowey²

2018

Net J Agric Sci

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The medicinally and historically significant plant species Boswellia sacra, shown to be effective in addressing numerous illnesses and stabilizing desertification in arid areas, has been noted for having an extremely low germination rate. The low rate of genetic variation among wild stands, which is leading to a possible genetic bottleneck, is exacerbated by the common practice of vegetative propagation through tree cuttings in cultivated stands, which produces clones. Stimulation of seeds to germinate under various conditions at Kibbutz Ketura, Israel was attempted in order to increase genetic variability. Seeds were collected from three source locations and screened via sink tests to identify viable seeds as those that were heavy enough to sink in water. The greatest amount of viable seeds came from a tree in Kibbutz Naot Smadar, which was 400 m above sea level and had a higher germination rate (by a factor of four) than those from trees at elevations much closer to sea level. This conspicuous correlation is discussed as a reason for future research to further understand causes and ways of addressing the extraordinarily low regeneration rate of both wild and cultivated stands.

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“…However, they transferred 35 species from Zygophyllum to Tetraena as new combinations; these species are from Africa and Asia. Subsequently, many authors (e.g., Norton et al, 2009;Louhaichi et al, 2011;Mosti et al, 2012;Sakkir et al, 2012;Symanczik et al, 2014;Ghazanfar and Osborne, 2015) agreed with the new classification proposed by Beier et al (2003) and used the new combinations proposed them. Thus, Tetraena currently has a distribution stretching from the Canary Islands in the west to South Africa in the south and China in the east.…”

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