Seed germination and vigor: ensuring crop sustainability in a changing climate

RC Reed, KJ Bradford, I Khanday - Heredity, 2022 - nature.com
In the coming decades, maintaining a steady food supply for the increasing world population
will require high-yielding crop plants which can be productive under increasingly variable …

Seed dormancy and germination

M Koornneef, L Bentsink, H Hilhorst - Current opinion in plant biology, 2002 - Elsevier
Seed dormancy and germination are complex adaptive traits of higher plants that are
influenced by a large number of genes and environmental factors. Studies of genetics and …

Barley grain maturation and germination: metabolic pathway and regulatory network commonalities and differences highlighted by new MapMan/PageMan profiling …

N Sreenivasulu, B Usadel, A Winter, V Radchuk… - Plant …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Plant seeds prepare for germination already during seed maturation. We performed a
detailed transcriptome analysis of barley (Hordeum vulgare) grain maturation, desiccation …

Phytohormones signaling pathways and ROS involvement in seed germination

K Oracz, S Karpiński - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Phytohormones and reactive oxygen species (ROS) are major determinants of the
regulation of development and stress responses in plants. During life cycle of these …

The seed and the metabolism regulation

H El-Maarouf-Bouteau - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Seeds are the reproductive units of higher plants. They have a significant
place in agriculture and plant diversity maintenance. Because they are dehydrated, they can …

Comparative transcriptomic analysis reveals conserved programmes underpinning organogenesis and reproduction in land plants

I Julca, C Ferrari, M Flores-Tornero, S Proost… - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
The appearance of plant organs mediated the explosive radiation of land plants, which
shaped the biosphere and allowed the establishment of terrestrial animal life. The evolution …

Unique features of the plant life cycle and their consequences

V Walbot, MMS Evans - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2003 - nature.com
Continuous development, the absence of a germline, flexible and reversible cellular
differentiation, and the existence of haploid and diploid generations—both of which express …