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Germination and dormancy breaking: two different things

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2012

Ken Thompson  and
Mark K. J. Ooi
Ken Thompson*
Affiliation:
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, SheffieldS10 2TN, UK
Mark K. J. Ooi
Affiliation:
Institute for Conservation Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW2522, Australia
*
*Correspondence E-mail: ken.thompson@sheffield.ac.uk
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Seed Science Research , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 1
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