SUMMERY The water-impermeable seed coat of 'hard' seeds is commonly considered a dormancy trait. Seed smell is, however, strongly correlated with seed water content, and hard seeds are therefore olfactionally cryptic to foraging rodents. This is the rationale for the crypsis hypothesis, which proposes that the primary functions of hard seeds are to reduce seed predation and promote rodent seed ...

(ibl)berellinl-like stulstances occtlr in mianv higher pllants (1 2, 17, 20). and sexeral have beenl idenitified (12). Tlhe presence of gibberelliln-like activity in seedless fruit, of V'itis v'iiifcra L. was (lenlonstrated in 1960 by Coombe (1). Although it seemiis probable that sulch a widely spread hormonie also would be invxolved in the groxwth of seede(d fruit, Coombe was unable to demnons...

Purpose. To investigate the inheritance of main valuable economic traits created breeding material spring pebble vetch under conditions aridity intensification. Methods. Field, visual, measuring, weighing, quantitative, laboratory, mathematical-statistical. Results. 18 lines obtained by diallel crosses were analyzed for traits. It has been proven that degree phenotypic dominance F1 hybrids can ...

Food legumes play an important role in attaining both food and nutritional security along with sustainable agricultural production for the well-being of humans globally. The various traits of economic importance in legume crops are complex and quantitative in nature, which are governed by quantitative trait loci (QTLs). Mapping of quantitative traits is a tedious and costly process, however, a ...

Abstract. Eagleton GE. 2022. A daylength-neutral winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus) for Southern Australian latitudes. Asian J Agric 6: 68-78. In the summer of 2019, on central coast NSW, Australia (at Latitude 34°S), an early-maturing genotype tropical legume crop, tetragonolobus (L.) DC.), was detected among a range late-maturing accessions. The performance this accession, MY0-01 from ...

a set of 29 persimmon genotypes were characterized using morphological characters and rapd markers. some fruit traits of: fresh weight, fruit length and diameter, firmness, fruit juice ph, ta, tss, flavor index, fruit skin and flesh color, seededness, leaf length and width were evaluated. analysis of variance for the investigated characters showed that genotypes were significantly different. re...

BACKGROUND Considered only in terms of tolerance of, or sensitivity to, desiccation (which is an oversimplification), orthodox seeds are those which tolerate dehydration and are storable in this condition, while highly recalcitrant seeds are damaged by loss of only a small proportion of water and are unstorable for practical purposes. Between these extremes, however, there may be a gradation of...