Samenvatting

Modernisation and intensification of the agricultural land in Europe has led to habitat fragmentation. Due to habitat fragmentation, wild plant populations became small and isolated. Plant populations need to be reinforced to prevent inbreeding depression and raising them ex situ is a generally considered as a valid way to accomplish this need. Therefore, it is necessary to gain knowledge about the germination process of wild plant species. For this study, the objective was to answer the following main question: “What effect does cold stratification have on the germination of ten pre-selected difficult germinators?”.