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A Study on the Cultivation of Danshen

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Danshen’s seeds are very small. The thousand seed’ weight is 1.64 g and the germination rate is about 70 %. The germination rate decreases as the storage time prolongs. There are two ways of propagation by seeds: directly sowing and seedling transplantation.

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Liang, Z., Liu, W. (2015). A Study on the Cultivation of Danshen. In: Yan, X. (eds) Dan Shen (Salvia miltiorrhiza) in Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9469-5_4

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