Seed persistence is the survival of seeds in the environment once they have reached
maturity. Seed persistence allows a species, population or genotype to survive long after the …

Timing of seed germination is one of the key steps in plant life cycles. It determines the
beginning of plant growth in natural or agricultural ecosystems. In the wild, many seeds …

Seed dormancy, by controlling the timing of germination, can strongly affect plant survival.
The kind of seed dormancy, therefore, can influence both population and species‐level …

The utilization of microbial inoculants in the realm of sustainable agricultural and ecosystem
restoration has witnessed a surge in recent decades. This rise is largely attributed to …

Altered fire regimes resulting from climate change and human activity threaten many
terrestrial ecosystems. However, we lack a holistic and detailed understanding of the effects …

Fire has shaped the evolution of many plant traits in fire‐prone environments: fire‐resistant
tissues with heat‐insulated meristems, post‐fire resprouting or fire‐killed but regenerating …

Integrating principles of ecological intensification into weed management strategies requires
an understanding of the many relationships among weeds, crops and other organisms of …

Plant defense theory explores how plants invest in defenses against natural enemies but
has focused primarily on the traits expressed by juvenile and mature plants. Here we …

There is growing realization that intraspecific variation in seed dispersal can have important
ecological and evolutionary consequences. However, we do not have a good understanding …

Seed coats serve as protective tissue to the enclosed embryo. As well as mechanical there
are also chemical defence functions. During domestication, the property of the seed coat …