How Do Seeds Save for a Rainy Day?
Timing is everything. For seeds it’s a matter of life or death.
Tag: germination
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
Integration between developmental pathways during reserve mobilization in palm seeds
Within- and trans-generational plasticity: seed germination responses to light quantity and quality
Intra-specific facilitation promotes the recruitment of a desert shrub
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.
