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 …

Given the rapid development of plant genomic technologies, a lack of access to plant
phenoty** capabilities limits our ability to dissect the genetics of quantitative traits …

With increasing demand to support and accelerate progress in breeding for novel traits, the
plant research community faces the need to accurately measure increasingly large numbers …

Plant growth and development are influenced by the genetic composition of the plant (G),
the environment (E), and the interaction between them (G× E). To produce suitable …

Epigenetics is receiving growing attention in the plant science community. Epigenetic
modifications are thought to play a particularly important role in fluctuating environments. It is …

Successful germination represents a crucial developmental transition in the plant lifecycle
and is important both for crop yields and plant survival in natural ecosystems. However …

Seed performance after dispersal is highly dependent on parental environmental cues,
especially during seed formation and maturation. Here we examine which environmental …

Dormancy is a state of metabolic arrest that facilitates the survival of organisms during
environmental conditions incompatible with their regular course of life. Many organisms …

Seeds from various angiosperm species produce polysaccharide mucilage facilitating
germination and, therefore, conferring major evolutionary advantages. The seed epidermal …

In recent years, a new branch of plant physiology, plant phenomics, which focuses on
identifying patterns of organization and changes in plant Phenomes, ie, physical and …