Daffodils and Snowdrops need the right temperatures in a few seasons to germinate. Will a changing climate cause problems?
Tag - morphophysiological dormancy
Fi Gennu
Morpho-physiological dormancy described in seeds of waterlilies (Nymphaea)
Substantial evidence supports morpho-physiological dormancy (MPD) as the basal kind of seed dormancy in flowering plants. However, for seeds of waterlilies (Nymphaea, Nymphaeaceae), only physiological dormancy (PD) is...
Alex Assiry
Amborella trichopoda helps reveal features of the first flowering plants
It's difficult to peer into the past to see the first flowering plant, but Charlie Scutt shows how an ancestor in the modern-era provides some clues as to what it looked like.
Guest Author
Seed dormancy of the first flowering plants
Dormancy mechanisms act to optimise the timing of seed germination for many seed plants. Fogliani et al. demonstrate that the New-Caledonian shrub Amborella trichopoda exhibits a type of morphophysiological dormancy in...
botanyone
Variable seed dormancy and germination in Hibbertia
Several ecologically important plant families in Mediterranean biomes have seeds with morphophysiological dormancy. Hidayati et al. study four species of the intractably dormant Australian genus Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae)...
