| dc.description | The authors discuss Lodorm Green Needlgrass, which was a new variety of revegitating range land perennial bunchgrass. The grass is adapted and has good potential for revegetating abused range land. Its yielding ability, nutritive quality, palatability, recovery growth and leaf-tostem
ratio are favorable haracteristics. Its use has been limited in part due to high seed
dormancy. Investigations have been conducted at the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station to determine the mechanisms responsible for dormancy, methods for reducing dormancy, and tests for predicting germination potential in green needlegrass seed. No practical commercial process had been devised for reducing seed dormancy. This reduction of the germination time is what this article focuses itself upon. | |
