Seeds are central to crop production, human nutrition, and food security. A key component of
the performance of crop seeds is the complex trait of seed vigour. Crop yield and resource …

Many molecular mechanisms that regulate dormancy have been identified individually in
controlled laboratory studies. However, little is known about how the seed employs this …

Phenology is a key aspect of plant and animal life strategies that determines the ability to
capture seasonally variable resources. It defines the season and duration of growth and …

Seed germination and flowering, two critical developmental transitions in plant life cycles,
are coordinately regulated by genetic and environmental factors to match plant …

Plant persistence and migration in face of climate change depends on successful
reproduction by seed, a central aspect of plant life that drives population dynamics …

In variable environments, organisms must have strategies to ensure fitness as conditions
change. For plants, germination can time emergence with favourable conditions for later …

A major challenge for biology is to extend our understanding of molecular regulation from
the simplified conditions of the laboratory to ecologically relevant environments. Tractable …

Climate change is accelerating plant developmental transitions coordinated with the
seasons in temperate environments. To understand the importance of these timing …

Phenology refers to the study of seasonal schedules of organisms. Molecular phenology is
defined here as the study of the seasonal patterns of organisms captured by molecular …

The number of times an organism reproduces (ie, its mode of parity) is a fundamental life‐
history character, and evolutionary and ecological models that compare the relative …