Influence of Temperature and Water Availability on Seed Germination of Cicer Milkvetch (Astragulus Cicer L.) and Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea Purpurea Vent. Var. Pupurea)

Authors

  • Fuguang Gao

    Baotou Animal husbandry and Aquatic products promotion Service Center. 506 Gangtieda Road, BaoTou, 014010, Inner Mongolia, P. R. China
  • Lizhi Zhang

    Baotou City Garden and Scientific Research Institute. Qingnian Road, BaoTou, 014010, Inner Mongolia, P. R. China
  • Michael P. Schellenberg

    Semiarid Agricultural Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Swift Current, Saskatchewan S9H 3X2, Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30564/jbr.v6i2.6762
Received: 17 June 2024 | Revised: 25 June 2024 | Accepted: 26 June 2024 | Published Online: 10 July 2024

Abstract

Global warming may leads a decrease in plant diversity and increased risk for some plant extinction does exist. The effect of temperature and water availability on seed germination were investigated in many plants, and are two of the most important factors on seed germination, for the plant survival that can result in a loss or increase under global climate change scenarios, by affecting a plant's recruitment success. Therefore, research on how climate change affects seed germination is essential for our research and  ability to predict the risk for plants. To examine the possible effect of climate change on two commonly grown legumes a greenhouse experiment was run at at AAFC-SPARC. One was an introduced legume, cicer milkvetch, and the other a native legume, purple prairie clover. Our findings were: the experiment with warmer temperature and decreased soil moisture to research seed germination, the result is that  reduction in the total both seed germination rate occurs, and showed the seed germination of purple prairie clover is better for the more stressful temperatures and water potentials examined in this experiment. For both legumes were examined on the control water potential the best temperature range is from 20℃ to 30℃ .

Keywords:

Global warming; Legumes; Abiotic stressors; Recruitment

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Fuguang Gao, Lizhi Zhang, & Michael P. Schellenberg. (2024). Influence of Temperature and Water Availability on Seed Germination of Cicer Milkvetch (Astragulus Cicer L.) and Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea Purpurea Vent. Var. Pupurea). Journal of Botanical Research, 6(2), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.30564/jbr.v6i2.6762

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