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INVASIVE PLANT SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
Volume 1, Issue 3, Pages 315-318Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1614/IPSM-07-027.1
Keywords
Alliaria petiolata; garlic mustard; germination ecology; cold stratification; dormancy
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS)
- [3611-22000-018-05]
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Garlic mustard is among the most important invasive weeds of North American eastern deciduous forests. Investigations of the mechanisms that enable its success as an invader require a simple method to propagate this weed in the laboratory and the greenhouse; we develop such a method in this study. Cold treatment (24-h dark cycle; maximum 6 C, minimum 21 C) for at least 100 d on a moist organic mix, followed by incubation at temperatures approximating spring (maximum 15 C, minimum 6 C), results in close to 100% germination. The information presented here will be valuable in studies requiring a steady supply of garlic mustard plants for experimentation and for the mass rearing of biological control agents.
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