Seed priming boosts germination speed & seedling strength in carrots/parsnips by encouraging early embryo growth.

Germination is a crucial stage in the life of a plant as it will leave the stage of seed resistant to various environmental constraints (climatic conditions, absence of nutritive elements, etc.) to ...

Plant seeds may strike the casual observer as unspectacular—but they have properties that are nothing short of superpowers. In a dry state they can store their energy for years and then suddenly ...

A closer look at the "mesocosms" — mini-environments used to conduct experiments — used in this study. The team assembled plant communities in garden pots, and, at the end of the experiment, clipped ...