ArticleJournal of experimental botany2011
Role of relative humidity, temperature, and water status in dormancy alleviation of sunflower seeds during dry after-ripening.
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- Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis Revealed That Hormone and Reactive Oxygen Species Synergetically Regulate Dormancy of Introgression Line in Rice (International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
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- Breaking Seed Dormancy during Dry Storage: A Useful Tool or Major Problem for Successful Restoration via Direct Seeding?Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- The role of seed appendage in improving the adaptation of a species in definite seasons: a case study of Atriplex centralasiatica.BMC plant biology · 2019Article
- Solid-State Biology and Seed Longevity: A Mechanical Analysis of Glasses in Pea and Soybean Embryonic Axes.Frontiers in plant science · 2019Article
- The Interrelationship between Abscisic Acid and Reactive Oxygen Species Plays a Key Role in Barley Seed Dormancy and Germination.Frontiers in plant science · 2017Article
- Ultraweak Photon Emission from the Seed Coat in Response to Temperature and Humidity-A Potential Mechanism for Environmental Signal Transduction in the Soil Seed Bank.Photochemistry and photobiology · 2016Article
- Fluctuation of Arabidopsis seed dormancy with relative humidity and temperature during dry storage.Journal of experimental botany · 2016Article
- Glutathione redox state, tocochromanols, fatty acids, antioxidant enzymes and protein carbonylation in sunflower seed embryos associated with after-ripening and ageing.Annals of botany · 2015Article
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- Is gene transcription involved in seed dry after-ripening?PloS one · 2014Article
- Quantitative analysis of the thermal requirements for stepwise physical dormancy-break in seeds of the winter annual Geranium carolinianum (Geraniaceae).Annals of botany · 2013Article
- Wheat seed proteins regulated by imbibition independent of dormancy status.Plant signaling & behavior · 2013Article
- Reduction of Seed Dormancy in Echinacea pallida (Nutt.) Nutt. by In-dark Seed Selection and Breeding.Industrial crops and products · 2012Article
- Targeted mRNA oxidation regulates sunflower seed dormancy alleviation during dry after-ripening.The Plant cell · 2011Article
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Abstract
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 dormancy alleviation depended on both temperature and embryo moisture content (MC). Below an embryo MC of 0.1 g H(2)O g(-1) dw, dormancy release was faster at 15 °C than at higher temperatures. This suggests that dormancy release at low MC was associated with negative activation energy, supported by Arrhenius plots, and low Q(10) values. At higher MC, the rate of dormancy alleviation increased with temperature, correlating well with the temperature dependence of biochemical processes. These findings suggests the involvement of two distinct cellular mechanisms in dormancy release; non-enzymatic below 0.1 g H(2)O g(-1) dw and associated with active metabolism above this value. The effects of temperature on seed dormancy release above the threshold MC were analysed using a population-based thermal time approach and a model predicting the rate of dormancy alleviation is provided. Sunflower embryo dormancy release was effective at temperatures above 8 °C (the base temperature for after-ripening, Tb(AR), was 8.17 °C), and the higher the after-ripening temperature above this threshold value, the higher was the rate of dormancy loss. Thermodynamic analyses of water sorption isotherms revealed that dormancy release was associated with less bound water and increased molecular mobility within the embryonic axes but not the cotyledons. It is proposed that the changes in water binding properties result from oxidative processes and can, in turn, allow metabolic activities.
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