Effect of environmental conditions on seed germination and seedling growth in
Cuscuta campestris
Koki Nagao,
Taku Takahashi,
Ryusuke Yokoyama
Abstract:The dodder,
Cuscuta
, is an obligate parasitic plant that cannot survive without a host plant and causes major damage to crop yields. To know its growth characteristics before parasitism, we examined the effect of various environmental conditions on seed germination and seedling growth in
Cuscuta campestris
. As for the effect of light on germination, far-red light was rather preferable to red light and the reversible response of the seeds to red and far-red light was confirmed, implicating a phytochrome-media… Show more
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