"It’s easy to see how The Age of Seeds could be an award-winning book."
Tag - seed biology
Nigel Chaffey
How Do Seeds Save for a Rainy Day?
Timing is everything. For seeds it's a matter of life or death.
Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra
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…...
Seed dispersal, the Ecuadorian dimension…
Rather belatedly in our look at animals and seed dispersal, we have our Darwin connection (after all, what biological item would be complete without mention of that venerable Victorian vegephile, Charles Darwin?). If...
Free paper — Seed germination and seedling development ecology in world-wide populations of a circumboreal Tertiary relict
Ecological traits of the circumboreal plant Viburnum opulus were examined here to improve understanding of the variation of populations occurring in the same biome but on different continents. Seedling...
Lulu Stader
Banking on future food security
Carolyn Fry, Sue Seddon and Gail Vines’ The last great plant hunt (2011, published by Kew Publishing at £25.00 in hardback) is difficult to categorise. Certainly, The Last Great Plant Hunt [hereafter referred to as...
Free—open access paper: Co-ordinated changes in storage proteins during development and germination of elite seeds of Pongamia pinnata, a versatile biodiesel legume
Seeds of Pongamia pinnata used as feedstock for biodiesel production and the protein-rich residue is fed to farm animals. This paper describes seed development and early germination in terms of phenology, protein and...
