Effect of seed mass and sowing depth on seedling establishment
In general, large seeds of intra-specific and inter-specific have some advantages than small seeds during the whole growing process, such as high germination rate and emergence rate, strong competition ability during growing process, larger seedling and high survival rate. Large seeds have these advantages because they store more nutrient resource and the shape of them can stand against some adverse environmental factors. At the same time, there are some disadvantages of the large seeds being observed. Sowing depth is an important factor that can influence the germination and emergence of each plant species. Lots of researches showed that there was an optimum sowing depth of each plant species, when above or below this depth, it would take disadvantage to seedling establishment.
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