How Do Seeds Save for a Rainy Day?
Timing is everything. For seeds it’s a matter of life or death.
Tag: dormancy
Global warming and earlier flowering: a thermogradient tunnel experiment
Winter annual Arabidopsis ecotypes have a distinct advantage over summer annuals in expected global warming scenarios.
Deacclimation kinetics as a quantitative phenotype for delineating the dormancy transition and thermal efficiency for budbreak in Vitis species
Within- and trans-generational plasticity: seed germination responses to light quantity and quality
Cell cycle arrest in plants
In the cell cycle, the G1 phase can be like a prison, where plant cells are arrested, unable to divide. These cells have been arrested for different reasons, serving sentences of different lengths. So how and why did they get there?
Molecular mediation of photoperiodic control in activity-dormancy tree growth cycles
This review presents the latest findings to provide insight into the molecular mechanisms that underlie how photoperiodic and temperature signals regulate seasonal growth in trees.
Cherry fruit developmental analysis
Population variation in germination strategies in an edaphic specialist
Germination responses to pre-dispersal light and post-dispersal cues
How do you wake a sleeping seed?
Redox changes, dormancy breaking and ageing of seeds
Global 5-methylcytosine alterations in DNA during ageing of seeds
This study finds that DNA methylation and 5-methylcytosine play key roles in determining the ageing and viability of stored recalcitrant seeds.
