Smoke and seed germination

From: Jon Lindstrom (tranell@omni.cc.purdue.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 03 1997 - 06:23:24 PDT

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:23:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lindstrom <tranell@omni.cc.purdue.edu>
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Subject: Smoke and seed germination

For those interested in the the use of smoke for carnivorous seed germination,
there is a paper in the May 23rd issue of Science magazine (United States)
titled "Trace gas emissions and smoke-induced seed germination." The
authors are Jon E. Keeley and C.J. Fotheringham from the Dept. of Biology at
Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. In the abstract the authors
state that "Chaparral wildfires generate sufficient nitrogen oxides from
combustion of organic matter or from postfire biogenic nitrification to
trigger germination of _Emmenanthe penduliflora_ (a chaparral annual)."

Jon T. Lindstrom
tranell@omni.cc.purdue.edu

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