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Heat shock and plant leachates regulate seed germination of the endangered carnivorous plant Drosophyllum lusitanicum
Susana Gómez-González
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Departamento de Biología-IVAGRO, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y
Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510, Spain
Centre for Science and Resilience Research (CR)2, Santiago,
8370361, Chile
Maria Paniw
Departamento de Biología-IVAGRO, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y
Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510, Spain
Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies,
University of Zurich, Zurich, 8057, Switzerland
Kamila Antunes
Departamento de Agronomia – DAG, Universidade Federal dos Vales do
Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 39100-000 Diamantina, Brazil
Fernando Ojeda
Departamento de Biología-IVAGRO, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y
Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510, Spain
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