Priming applied to commercial seed lots is widely used by seed technologists to enhance
seed vigour in terms of germination potential and increased stress tolerance. Priming can be …

Salt and drought stress are major environmental issues world-widely. These stresses can
result in failures of seed germination, limiting agricultural production. New approaches are …

Mature seeds are an ultimate physiological status that enables plants to endure extreme
conditions such as high and low temperature, freezing and desiccation. Seed longevity, the …

Food security is one of the most important challenges worldwide and will become even more
challenging with increasing impacts of climate change. Develo** ways of increasing the …

Germination vigor is driven by the ability of the plant embryo, embedded within the seed, to
resume its metabolic activity in a coordinated and sequential manner. Studies using “-omics” …

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is steadily gaining more attention in the field of molecular
biology research. It is a major REDOX (reduction–oxidation reaction) metabolite and at high …

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 …

Upon storage, seeds inevitably age and lose their viability over time, which determines their
longevity. Longevity correlates with successful seed germination and enhancing this trait is …

Environmental conditions are the basis of plant reproduction and are the critical factors
controlling seed dormancy and germination. Global climate change is currently affecting …

Main conclusion Discrete categories of seed physiology can be explained through a unified
concept of the structural and molecular mobility responses within cells to drying. Tolerance …