Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology

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8 Dormancy: Manifestations and Causes Frank G. Dennis, Jr. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 161 I. IMPORTANCE O ...

Even when climatic factors do not dictate a need for seed dormancy, the characteristic provides a safeguard for survival. If all ...

development (abortion) or after shedding of the mature seed. Some seeds (silver maple, citrus) are very short-lived; if germinat ...

Acacia divergensaveraged 11, 28, and 90% for no treatment, mechanical scarification, and boiling in wa- ter for 30 sec, respecti ...

In contrast, seeds of birch germinate better in darkness at high than at low temperature (Figure 1B), but exposure to light can ...

similar brief exposure to far-red light (730 nm), the effect of the red light treatment is nullified (Table 5). Alternating red ...

DORMANCY: MANIFESTATIONS AND CAUSES 167 TABLE 5 Reversible Effects of Brief Exposures to Red (R
580 to 680 nm) and Far-Red (FR ...

If seed coat removal does not allow germination under favorable conditions, control obviously lies within the embryo (exalbumino ...

lier)—they are prevented from growing by the presence of the apex rather than by conditions within the buds themselves. As the s ...

[52]. Species and cultivars vary greatly in the number of chilling hours required. For example, the chill- ing requirements of p ...

As noted earlier, in some areas of the tropics or subtropics, peach, apple, and grape can be multiple cropped, although a brief ...

Inhibitors of respiration, or more specifically, of cytochrome oxidase, can break dormancy in some seeds, including rice [69,70] ...

ndylium), embryos of seeds held at 15°C elongate for approximately 6 weeks, then stop growing when approximately half their full ...

dent in the cotyledons at 5°C or in either axes or cotyledons at 20°C. The authors suggested that protein reserves might be mobi ...

High levels of promoters are required only temporarily at the beginning of the “trigger” phase that ends dormancy [123]. ABA bl ...

cline was not temperature-dependent [135]. The concentration of ABA declines during soaking of lettuce seed, regardless of their ...

Bewley JD, Black M. Seeds: Physiology of Development and Germination. New York: Plenum, 1985. Bradbeer JW. Seed Dormancy and Ge ...