PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - J Dale Simpson
AU  - Bernard I Daigle
TI  - Five years’ storage of seeds from three willow species
AID  - 10.2979/NPJ.2009.10.1.63
DP  - 2009 Mar 20
TA  - Native Plants Journal
PG  - 63--67
VI  - 10
IP  - 1
4099  - http://npj.uwpress.org/content/10/1/63.short
4100  - http://npj.uwpress.org/content/10/1/63.full
SO  - NATIVE PLANTS JOURNAL2009 Mar 20; 10
AB  - Seeds of Salix bebbiana Sarg., S. discolor Muhl., and S. eriocephala Michx. (Salicaceae) were stored at 2 moisture contents (low, 5.1 to 7.3% and high, 8.5 to 9.8%) and 4 temperatures (4, –20, –80, and –145 °C [39, –4, –112, –229 °F]) for 60 mo. Seeds stored at 4 °C lost most or all viability by 24 mo. We observed no significant difference in germination between the 2 seed moisture contents for each species. After 60 mo of subzero storage, germination of S. bebbiana seeds declined from 89 to 83%, S. discolor from 60 to 54%, and S. eriocephala from 71 to 54%.