Abstract

Unlike germination of wheat (Triticum aestivum), millet (Eleucine coracana), and sorghum (Shorgum caudatum), that of Echinochloa oryzoides (barnyard grass) and Oryza sativa (rice) was not inhibited by poorly aerated solutions with 11 kPa oxygen (equilibrium partial pressure) or less. In the dark, seedling shoots of rice included a coleoptile, and in Echinochloa, a mesocotyl also. Growth in fresh and dry weight of shoots was strongly depressed by poorly aerated solutions in both rice and Echinochloa but the effects on extension differed in the two species (...)

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