Seasonal Changes in the Germination Responses of Buried Witchgrass ( Panicum capillare ) Seeds

  • Baskin J
  • Baskin C
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Buried seeds of witchgrass ( Panicum capillare L., # PANCA) exposed to natural seasonal temperature changes in Lexington, KY, for 0 to 35 months exhibited annual dormancy/nondormancy cycles. Seeds were dormant at maturity in early October. During burial in late autumn and winter, fresh seeds and those that had been buried for 1 and 2 years became nondormant. Nondormant seeds germinated from 76 to 100% in light at daily thermoperiods of 15/6, 20/10, 25/15, 30/15, and 35/20 C, while in darkness they germinated from 1 to 24%. In late spring, seeds lost the ability to germinate in darkness, and by late summer 63 to 100% of them had lost the ability to germinate in light. As seeds became nondormant, they germinated (in light) at high (35/20, 30/15 C) and then at lower (25/15, 20/10, and 15/6 C) temperatures. As seeds reentered dormancy, they lost the ability to germinate (in light) at 15/6 C and at higher thermoperiods 2 to 3 months later.

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Baskin, J. M., & Baskin, C. C. (1986). Seasonal Changes in the Germination Responses of Buried Witchgrass ( Panicum capillare ) Seeds. Weed Science, 34(1), 22–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0043174500026370

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