Investigations on seed biology and ecology are of major importance for the conservation of
threatened plants, both providing baseline information and suggesting practical approaches …

Guar ('Cyamopsis tetragonoloba'(L.) Taub.) is an annual legume with a long crop cycle and
high temperature threshold for seed germination (20-21 degrees C). In semi-arid …

Most legumes are well-known for the physical dormancy of their seeds; hence, the
implementation of appropriate scarification techniques is essential for introducing new …

Carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) is a relevant element of the Mediterranean spontaneous
vegetation. Moreover, it is useful in reforestation, and it is currently re-valued for sustainable …

Seed dormancy complicates the agricultural use of many legume species. Understanding
the genetic and environmental drivers of seed dormancy is necessary for advancing crop …

Seeds of Nelumbo nucifera do not imbibe water, and thus have physical dormancy (PY).
However, a proportion of seeds are permeable to water, and so we hypothesized that …

Abstract Background Seeds of Paeonia ostii have been proposed as a source of raw
material for the production of edible oil; however, lack of information about the …

A research was carried out to evaluate the influence of temperature on seed respiration
response of maize, cotton, grain sorghum and sunflower during imbibition, and to define …

Em muitas leguminosas, a capacidade de germinação de sementes recém-colhidas é
controlada por dois proces-sos antagônicos, o processo de maturação e o estabelecimento …

Mahunarke su glavni izvor biljnih bjelančevina u svijetu stoga zauzimaju važnu ulogu u
prehrani ljudi i hranidbi životinja. U Hrvatskoj se zrnate mahunarke pretežno uzgajaju na …