Vaccinium oldhamii Miq. is an edible berry; however, little known about its seed dormancy-break and germination. Therefore, the aim of this study was to elucidate seed-dormancy break germination characteristics V. oldhamii. The results showed that length width seeds were 2.4588 ± 0.0273 mm 1.7028 0.0248 mm, respectively, filled percentage 49.0 3.0%, 1000-seed weight 0.9453 g. Additionally, wate...

To better understand the molecular and physiological mechanisms underlying maintenance and release of seasonal bud dormancy in perennial trees, we identified differentially expressed genes during dormancy progression in reproductive buds from peach (Prunus persica [L.] Batsch) by suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) and microarray hybridization. Four SSH libraries were constructed, which...

Evolutionary change in the timing of dormancy enables animals and plants to adapt to changing seasonal environments and can result in ecological speciation. Despite its clear biological importance, the mechanisms underlying the evolution of dormancy timing in animals remain poorly understood because of a lack of anatomical landmarks to discern which phase of dormancy an individual is experienci...

Many endangered plants such as Eryngium viviparum (Apiaceae) present a poor germination rate. This fact could be due to intrinsic and extrinsic seed variability influencing germination and dormancy of seeds. The objective of this study is to better understand the physiological mechanism of seed latency and, through artificial intelligence models, to determine the factors that stimulate germinat...

The dormancy characteristics and optimum conditions for seed germination of Alstroemeria ligtu had not been explained. In vitro and in vivo alstroemeria (A. ligtu hybrid) seed germination tests were conducted in a Randomized Completely Design at two different treatments (gibberellic acid (GA3) 0, 100, 200 and 400 mg/l with and without stratification in 5±1oC) in four replications. Seeds were pl...

Water oak is often used in afforestation projects in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, but its field performance is often poor due to low survival rates and severe top dieback immediately after planting. The poor physiological quality of planting stock may be a contributing factor to this transplanting problem. In this study, cold storage was investigated to increase dormancy status of see...

Mature seeds of most of the higher plants harbor dormant embryos and go through the complex process of germination under favorable environmental conditions. The germination process involves dynamic physiological, cellular and metabolic events that are controlled by the interplay of several gene products and different phytohormones. The small non-coding RNAs comprise key regulatory modules in th...

Seeds have been reported to a combination of physical and physiological dormancy. However, this study revealed that H. dulcis seeds only The water absorption the after different periods sulfuric acid scarification was measured, gap through which absorbed treatment specified. Cold stratification gibberellic were performed determine whether had could absorb completely when scarified for more than...

The path to dormancy induction, maintenance, and release is a continuum and has been the topic of thousands of research articles to date. It would be an impossible task and indeed presumptuous of us to imagine that we could review all the research conducted on dormancy in the past century in this article. The multiple and complex nature of the dormancy phenomenon would require not one review bu...