Despite increasing efforts towards habitat and species protection in Europe since the 1990s, when the Fauna-Flora-Habitat directive was adopted, the proportion of threatened plant species has steadily increased. One...
A study of seeds from alpine & lowland populations of Silene vulgaris shows that seed longevity has a genetic basis, but may show strong adaptive responses.
Subjecting seeds to elevated oxygen concentrations may provide a novel method for studying ageing processes. Groot et al.Β test this hypothesis by storing dry seed of barley (Hordeum vulgare), cabbage (Brassica...
Seed of alpine plants are short-lived in storage Alpine ecosystems are considered as being particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Mondoni et al.Β report that seeds of alpine plants are short-lived in...