Effective ecological restoration of abandoned agricultural fields, especially highly degraded
ecosystems, remains challenge. Germination is imperative to restore natural ecosystems …

Seeds play essential roles in plant life cycle and germination is a complex process which is
associated with different phases of water imbibition. Upon imbibition, seeds begin utilization …

Trees dominate the structural and functional dynamics of many temperate and tropical forest
ecosystems and are of considerable scientific and social interest. The effective ecological …

Cyclobalnopsis gilva is a woody plant with lower seed germination rate in its natural habitats
as compared with other plants. The regulation at transcriptional level to of seed germination …

Background Seed germination, a complex, physiological–morphogenetic process, is a
critical stage in the life cycle of plants. Biological changes in germinating seeds have not …

Background Seed germination, the foundation of plant propagation, involves a series of
changes at the molecular level. Poplar is a model woody plant, but the molecular events …

Seed germination is a critical process for completion of the plant life cycle and for global
food production. Comparing the germination transcriptomes of barley (Hordeum vulgare) to …

Using post-genomic technologies, it is now possible to understand the molecular basis of
complex developmental processes. In the case of seed germination, recent transcriptome …

Poplar (Populus× xiaohei TS Hwang et Liang) is an excellent model plant, with a known
genome sequence, for studying woody plant developmental processes, such as seed …

Mycorrhizal fungi colonize orchid seeds and induce germination. This so-called symbiotic
germination is a critical developmental process in the lifecycle of all orchid species …