The timing of dormancy is a rapidly evolving life-history trait playing a crucial role in the synchronization of seasonal life cycles and adaptation to environmental change. But the physiological mechanisms regulating dormancy in animals remain poorly understood. In insects, dormancy (diapause) is a developmentally dynamic state, and the mechanisms that control diapause transitions affect seaso...

The physiological dormancy of sunflower (Helianthus annuus) embryos can be overcome during dry storage (after-ripening) or by applying exogenous ethylene or hydrogen cyanide (HCN) during imbibition. The aim of this work was to provide a comprehensive model, based on oxidative signaling by reactive oxygen species (ROS), for explaining the cellular mode of action of HCN in dormancy alleviation. B...

The medicinal plant, coastal glehnia (Glehnia littoralis F. Schmidt ex Miq.), belongs to the Apiaceae, which is known exhibit morpho-physiological seed dormancy (MPD). In this study, we aimed determine type of along with conditions for breaking dormancy, and how increase its germination rate mass production. Initially, seeds had undeveloped embryos, gradually developed following cold (5 °C) str...

Alstroemeria pelegrina (A. pelegrina), a Chilean endemic, is considered vulnerable as its natural habitat currently threatened. The decline in the reproductive capacity of species due to anthropogenic impacts and climate change has made it imperative address problem by developing large-scale propagation methods. objective this study was establish protocols for breaking dormancy vitro germinatio...