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ReviewPlants (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Reactive Oxygen Species as Potential Drivers of the Seed Aging Process.

Katarzyna Kurek, Beata Plitta-Michalak, Ewelina Ratajczak

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Review in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 101 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
101citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
24.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

101 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 225 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Multifactorial Role of Phytogenic CeOPlant-environment interactions (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026
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41 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Katarzyna KurekInstitute of Dendrology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Parkowa 5, 62-035 Kórnik, Poland. katarzynakurek95@gmail.com.
Beata Plitta-MichalakDepartment of Biology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, D64287 Darmstadt, Germany. beata-plitta@wp.pl.
Ewelina RatajczakInstitute of Dendrology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Parkowa 5, 62-035 Kórnik, Poland. eratajcz@man.poznan.pl.
Institute of Dendrology · PLTechnical University of Darmstadt · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Seeds are an important life cycle stage because they guarantee plant survival in unfavorable environmental conditions and the transfer of genetic information from parents to offspring. However, similar to every organ, seeds undergo aging processes that limit their viability and ultimately cause the loss of their basic property, i.e., the ability to germinate. Seed aging is a vital economic and scientific issue that is related to seed resistance to an array of factors, both internal (genetic, structural, and physiological) and external (mainly storage conditions: temperature and humidity). Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are believed to initiate seed aging via the degradation of cell membrane phospholipids and the structural and functional deterioration of proteins and genetic material. Researchers investigating seed aging claim that the effective protection of genetic resources requires an understanding of the reasons for senescence of seeds with variable sensitivity to drying and long-term storage. Genomic integrity considerably affects seed viability and vigor. The deterioration of nucleic acids inhibits transcription and translation and exacerbates reductions in the activity of antioxidant system enzymes. All of these factors significantly limit seed viability.

Indexed as

aging seedsantioxidant systemDNA damagemethylationreactive oxygen species (ROS)

Identifiers

PMID31207940
PMCPMC6630744
OpenAlexW2949436753

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