New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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Seed quality and New Zealand’s native plants: an unexplored relationship?

J. G. Hampton
M. J. Hill

New Zealand Seed Technology Institute
P.O. Box 84
Lincoln University
Canterbury, New Zealand

Abstract   Seed quality refers to a number of seed properties which may have varying degrees of practical importance depending on species and end use. Possible reasons for requiring information about the quality of seeds of New Zealand’s native plants are presented, and data for both seed physical and physiological quality reviewed. Despite the strategic value of New Zealand’s native plants in biological diversity and for the conservation of this biodiversity, their seed quality is largely an unknown area of plant science.

Keywords   germination; vigour; seed weight; seed hygiene; seed moisture; biodiversity; genebank

B02025 Received 13 March 2002; accepted 4 July 2002; published 11 September 2002
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2002, Vol. 40: 357-364
0028-825X/02/4003-0357 $7.00 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2002

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