Timing is everything. For seeds it's a matter of life or death.
Tag - germination
Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra
Why would a plant that doesn’t live in a wildfire zone need to be able to smell smoke?
The ability to smell smoke is important if you're expecting a fire - but some plants have altered how they use this sense to modify how they grow.
Dale Maylea
Tolerance to waterlogging in relay sown grain legume crops
How do lentil, faba bean, field pea and grass pea vary in their tolerance to waterlogging, hypoxia and anoxia?
William Salter
The importance of soil seed banks to invasive plant species
Can soil seed banks contribute to the success of invasive plant species?
Colder temperatures better for long-term maize seed storage
Seeds were found to vary from one accession to the next in their cold storage longevity.
Erin Zimmerman
Seed heteromorphism, an adaptive trait of desert plant species
What are the effects of genetic and environmental factors on seed heteromorphism and its variations?
As a keystone clade, Miconia species support a huge variety of frugivores
Different species fruit sequentially, offering a year-round food resource.
How does variation in traits of Tunisian oak seeds affect survival?
Oaks are the dominant species of tree in many Mediterranean forests. However, the climate of the Mediterranean basin is predicted to change dramatically. Will the make-up of the forests change similarly? To find out...
Fi Gennu
How do marshes migrate?
New research shows that marsh plants may be lying in wait in marshes-to-be, waiting for geological processes to catch up.
Alun Salt
Integration between developmental pathways during reserve mobilization in palm seeds
Palm seeds are interesting models for studying seed reserve mobilization at the tissue level due to the abundance and complexity of reserves stored in their living endosperm cells and the development of a highly...
botanyone
Within- and trans-generational plasticity: seed germination responses to light quantity and quality
Plants respond not only to the environment in which they find themselves, but also to that of their parents. The combination of within- and trans-generational phenotypic plasticity regulates plant development. The light...
Intra-specific facilitation promotes the recruitment of a desert shrub
In stressful environments, nurse elements, such as shrubs or rocks, facilitate plant recruitment by providing less severe environments for seed germination and seedling survival. As seedlings develop, however, they may...
AoBPLANTS
The autonomous flowering-time pathway pleiotropically regulates seed germination
Despite some degree of functional divergence between the regulation of flowering and germination by autonomous-pathway genes, the autonomous pathway is highly functionally conserved across life stages.
Plant records: Can a plant be too trusting?
Name: Orchids Scientific name: Family: Orchidaceae Known for: Beauty, epiphytism, providing vanilla flavouring, tiny seeds, mycorrhizae, deceptive pollination, mycoheterotrophy, medicinal usage, vegetating Krakatoa…...
Nigel Chaffey