Seeds are central to crop production, human nutrition, and food security. A key component of
the performance of crop seeds is the complex trait of seed vigour. Crop yield and resource …

Priming applied to commercial seed lots is widely used by seed technologists to enhance
seed vigour in terms of germination potential and increased stress tolerance. Priming can be …

Seed dormancy is an innate seed property that defines the environmental conditions in
which the seed is able to germinate. It is determined by genetics with a substantial …

Simple Summary Research on plant epigenetics aims to understand how endogenous,
biotic, and abiotic factors regulate plant development and growth independent of changes in …

The seed germination and seedling growth of rapeseed are crucial stages in plant life,
especially when facing abiotic stresses. In the present work, the effects of water and …

Many molecular mechanisms that regulate dormancy have been identified individually in
controlled laboratory studies. However, little is known about how the seed employs this …

Wheat is the most extensively cultivated crop and occupies a central place in human
nutrition providing 20% of the daily food calories. This study was conducted to find both T …

Temperature (T) and water potential (y) are two primary environmental regulators of seed
germination. Seeds exhibit a base or minimum T for germination (Tb), an optimum T at which …

Despite the disproportionate influence that propagule production, dispersal, seed‐to‐
seedling recruitment and vegetative reproduction can have on plant population and …

The application of germination models in economic crop management makes them
extremely useful for predicting seed germination. Hence, we examined the effect of varying …