A Principal Component Analysis of Main Factors Influencing Seed Germination of Bioenergy Grass

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Biomass energy is considered to be an ideal renewable alternative energy and herbaceous energy plants as an important biomass resources became research hot spot all over the world. Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) is international recognized as the most suitable bioenergy plant for the past few years. In order to obtain the basic data about seed germination characteristics on switchgrass as a bioenergy grass, different temperatures are investigated to select reliability indexes on seed germination of two species switchgrass from eight measurement indexes and then analyzed main factors influencing seed vigor by a principal component analysis. The result showed that co-efficiency of germination (CG), germination index (GI) and Peak value (PV) from eight germination indexes can be used as measurement indexes for detect seed germination of two species switchgrass.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 805-806)

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236-239

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September 2013

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© 2013 Trans Tech Publications Ltd. All Rights Reserved

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