Israel Journal of Plant Sciences

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Seed germination and conservation of endemic,

rare, and threatened aromatic plants of Cyprus

Costas Kadis , Constantinos Kounnamas & Kyriacos Georghiou

To cite this article: Costas Kadis , Constantinos Kounnamas & Kyriacos Georghiou (2010) Seed
germination and conservation of endemic, rare, and threatened aromatic plants of Cyprus, Israel
Journal of Plant Sciences, 58:3-4, 251-261

To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1560/IJPS.58.3-4.251

Published online: 14 Mar 2013.

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 Israel Journal of Plant Sciences Vol. 58 2010 pp. 251–261
DOI: 10.1560/IJPS.58.3-4.251

Seed germination and conservation of endemic, rare, and threatened aromatic plants of
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COSTAS KADIS,a,* CONSTANTINOS KOUNNAMAS,a AND KYRIACOS GEORGHIOUb

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Nature Conservation Unit, Frederick University, P.O. Box 24729, 1303 Nicosia, Cyprus
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Department of Botany, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens, Athens 15784, Greece

(Received August 31, 2009; accepted in revised form December 8, 2009)

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