The application of short-term stresses or elicitors in seedlings or embryos with high metabolic activity might increase multi-adversity tolerance. Beans seeds cv. IAC-Carioca were exposed to cold shock temperatures (S 7°C 24h) and salicylic acid (SA 0.01 mM 48h) during imbibition to study physiological responses to osmotic stress physiological responses. The seeds were soaked in paper towel imb...

ABSTRACT: Seed priming was used in wheat seeds to increase germination characteristics and tolerance on stress exposure. Wheat seeds were treated with salicylic acid and gibberellin. After 8 days our results showed that, seed priming treatments significantly (p≤ 0.01) affected germination percentage, normality seedling percentage, germination index and seedling length. Seed priming with salicyl...

Eucommia ulmoides Oliv., the only member of family Eucommiaceae, is endemic to China and has great development utilization prospects. The seeds E. show dormancy but underlying mechanism remains unknown. aim this study was determine cause seed provide fundamental knowledge for breeding, genetic improvement, conservation germplasm resources species. According classification system developed by Je...

tamarinda (tamarindus indica) and indian gum arabica (acacia arabica) are two ornamental trees of beautiful shape, extensive shading, and tolerant to high temperatures, making them suitable alternatives for landscape design in warm- arid regions. tamarinda and indian gum arabica are commonly propagated by seed. however, seed physical dormancy causes delay in seed germination. this study was car...

Abscisic acid (ABA) inhibits seed germination and the regulation of ABA biosynthesis has a role in maintenance of seed dormancy. The key rate-limiting step in ABA biosynthesis is catalyzed by 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase (NCED). Two hydroxamic acid inhibitors of carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase (CCD), D4 and D7, previously found to inhibit CCD and NCED in vitro, are shown to have the novel ...

In coming decades, increasing temperatures are expected to impact crop yield and seed quality. To develop low input systems, the effects of temperature and sulfur (S) nutrition in oilseed rape, a high S demanding crop, need to be jointly considered. In this study, we investigated the effects of temperatures [High Temperature (HT), 33°C/day, 19°C/night vs. Control Temperature (Ctrl T), 20°C/day,...

Seed imbibition under cold temperature is dangerous when dry seeds have relatively low water content. The aim of this study was to investigate germination of 20 lines/cultivars of narrow-leaf lupine at 7 °C (cold) and 13 °C (control) under the influence of smoke water and following seed hydropriming for 3 h at 20 °C. The efficacy of individual treatments was examined with regard to seed protect...

mechanical damages inflicted upon seeds in harvesting, handling and further subsequent processes are worth attention because they unfavourably influence the quality of seed. seed damage results in lower grain value, storage problems, and reduced seed germination and seedling vigor, resulting in a subsequent diminishing yield of future crops. the present experiments were conducted to determine t...

Seed priming has been suggested to improve germination performance under temperature or water stress. The objective of this study was to develop an optimal osmopriming protocol for spinach (Spinacia oleracea L. cv. Bloomsdale) seeds and examine its effect on the germination performance at suboptimal and supraoptimal temperatures, and under water stress. Standard germination tests at optimal ger...