STUDIES ON THE GERMINATION AND SEEDLING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SAVANNA PALM TREES

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dc.contributor.authorSALISU, MUHAMMAD TAHIR
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-20T08:02:11Z
dc.date.available2014-03-20T08:02:11Z
dc.date.issued2005-02
dc.descriptionA Thesis submitted to the Postgraduate School, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the ward of Masters Degree In Science Educational Biology. DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, FACULTY OF SCIENCE, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY. ZARIA, NIGERIA.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe research was conducted to determine the most effective physical and Sulphuric acid treatment suitable for faster germination in four indigenous Savanna Palm trees; Borassus aethiopum, Hyphaene thebaica, Phoenix reclinata and Raphia sudanica. From the four species studied, result of analysis of variance indicated that there was a significant difference among average days for germination, percentage germination and average height (P < 0.05). Seeds of the four species were found to have mechanical dormancy due to hard seed coats. Treatment with concentrated Sulphuric acid induced germination only in Hyphaene and to a lesser extent in Borassus. All treatments had significant effects on parameters tested on the four species, except in Borassus where there was no significant effect on percentage germination. The Savanna Palms were shown to exhibit a cryptogeal type of germination, which took place in two stages: (i) preparatory germination (ii) germination proper.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4062
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectSTUDIES,en_US
dc.subjectGERMINATION,en_US
dc.subjectSEEDLING,en_US
dc.subjectCHARACTERISTICS,en_US
dc.subjectSAVANNA,en_US
dc.subjectPALM TREESen_US
dc.titleSTUDIES ON THE GERMINATION AND SEEDLING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SAVANNA PALM TREESen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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