The importance of in vitro tools to complement other ex situ methods for saving plants from
extinction is more relevant than ever before. More than 50% of the world's plant species are …

Seeds die inevitably but unexpectedly during storage and current understanding of seed
quality and storage conditions do not allow reliable means to predict or prevent this critical …

Many species of ferns and lycophytes are threatened by habitat destruction, over-collecting,
invasive species, and climate change, and plans to secure their in situ and ex situ …

During desiccation, the cytoplasm of orthodox seeds solidifies into an intracellular glass with
highly restricted diffusion and molecular mobility. Temperature and water content govern …

Slow movement of molecules in glassy matrices controls the kinetics of chemical and
physical reactions in dry seeds. Variation in physiological activity among seeds suggests …

The effect of various combinations of temperature and relative humidity on dormancy
alleviation of sunflower seeds during dry after-ripening was investigated. The rate of …

Desiccation tolerance (DT) represents an ecophysiological strategy probably developed
during land conquest by primitive plants that have been progressively lost in photosynthetic …

• Premise of the study: Fern spores are unicellular and haploid, making them a potential
model system to study factors that regulate lifespan and mechanisms of aging. Aging rates of …

This work contributes to the understanding of plant cell responses to extreme water stress
when it is applied at different intensity and duration. Fern spores are used to explore survival …

Green spores of ferns lose viability quickly, and need specialized treatment for long-term
conservation in germplasm banks. Dry storage at different temperatures was studied in …