Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum L.) is one of the important vegetable crops in China. However, the seeds of this crop are short-lived and their vitality tends to be easily lost in the course of storage. The present study was conducted to elucidate the effects of welsh onion seed priming with potassium nitrate (KNO3) on seed vigor and on other such related mechanisms during twelve months of stora...

Seed vigor is a complex property that determines the seed's potential for rapid uniform emergence and subsequent growth. However, the mechanism for change in seed vigor is poorly understood. The seeds of poplar (Populus × Canadensis Moench), which are short-lived, were stored at 30 °C and 75 ± 5% relative humidity for different periods of time (0-90 days) to obtain different vigor seeds (from 9...

Germination vigor is driven by the ability of the plant embryo, embedded within the seed, to resume its metabolic activity in a coordinated and sequential manner. Studies using "-omics" approaches support the finding that a main contributor of seed germination success is the quality of the messenger RNAs stored during embryo maturation on the mother plant. In addition, proteostasis and DNA inte...

It was evaluated the damage caused by Bruchus pisorum on the germination ability of pea forage cultivars. Result of damage in seeds with parasitized larva was a significant decrease of the germination by 16.4% percentage points, the length and weight of primary radicle by 16.8 and 24.5%, the length and weight of plumule by 12.3 and 14.1%, the vigor index of primary radicle and plumule by 32.5 a...

influences on viability and germination of seeds have been studied intensively for many years, particularly for the numer-ous commercially important agricultural, ornamental, and timber species. high germinating seed lots may differ substantially in field emergence when sown at the same time in the same field, and/or may differ in performance after storage in the same environment or transport t...

sesame is one of the most important oil crops in iran. high oil seed content makes it difficult to store for a long period of time. this study was conducted in 2012 to evaluate possible physiological and biochemical changes in seed under different storage conditions. various seed moisture content (5, 9, 13, and 17%) were evaluated under five temperatures (5, 15, 25, 35, 45) for six month. germi...

Th is review exam ines th e use of vigor tests for tree s e eds . It suggests th at precise evaluations of th e s e tests and th e ir application w ith s eeds of w oody plants is not yet possib le . Th is is due to th e w ide genetic variation, prim arily m anifested in variab le m aturity and dorm ancy, th at exists in m ost tree s e ed lots. Sensitive m easurem ents of germ ination rate durin...