短命植物异果芥异形果实与种子的生态适应对策-草业科学专业论文.docxVIP

warm temperatures. After 12 months of afterripening under laboratory conditions, seeds had high germination over the range of cool to warm temperature regimes. Seeds stored in the field germinated to high percentage at cool temperatures, but to low percentage at warm temperatures when tested germination of seeds stored in the field until April (10-months old). Dormancy break occurs in summer, but seeds are not induced back into dormancy (secondary dormancy) during winter. Seeds have nondeep physiological dormancy. Germination of the excised seeds from the upper and lower siliques was not inhibited by mucilage. The pericarp physically restricts/prevents germination of seeds within the lower siliques. Soil moisture influence germination of seeds from upper and lower siliques in desert. If the soil is sufficiently moist during summer and autumn, they germinate in autumn. If the nondormant seeds fail to germinate in autumn, they germinate in next spring, when soil moisture (precipitation plus snow melt) were suitable for germination. Seeds within these indehiscent siliques are prevented from germinating during the first spring germination season by the mechanical restraint of the thick, rigid pericarp. Thus, the lower siliques can form a persistent seed bank. For a given germination timing plants from the two seed morphs did not differ in life history traits and a high percentage of plants survived and reproduced. However, there were great differences in all life history traits between autumn- and spring-germinating plants from both of seeds. There were significant differences in life span and plant size of those that germinated in autumn vs. spring. Autumn-germinating plants had a longer life span and larger plant size than did spring-germinating plants. Number and length of branches and reproduction of siliques and seeds was positively correlated with plant size. Allocation to roots and stems was higher in autumn-germinating plants than in spring-germinating plants,