الفهرس 
Ecophysiological studies on some wild forage plant species in North Africa
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Abstract
This study carried out to find a future forage alternatives plants from Egyptian flora. The two chosen plants were: Astragalus eremophilus (leguminosae) and panicum turgidum (gramineae). The seeds of them were obtained from Wadi Elgemal protected area of southern Egyptian red sea coast. The first part of this study 2seed germination3 was carried out in the plant resources laboratory of Natural resource dep. at Institute of African researches and studies, Cairo university, Egypt, during 2012 to evaluate the germination and seedling growth of panicum turgidum and astragalus eremophilus under different concentrations of salinity companied with different degrees of temperature. The seeds of these plants were planted in petri dishes with different concentrations of NaCl (0, 50, 100 and 150 mM) and subjected to different temperatures during germination, i.e., 35, 40 and 45{u00B0}C. Salinity and high temperature adversely affected the seeds germination, mineral uptake and chlorophyll content of them but the germination of pPanicum turgidum seedlings were more sensitive to salinity and high temperature than those of astragalus eremophilus