ArticleAnnals of botany2021
Seed longevity of maize conserved under germplasm bank conditions for up to 60 years.
Article in Annals of botany, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Genotype-by-environment interaction informs selection for seed physiological quality and stink bug tolerance in soybean under pest management contrasts.Pest management science · 2026Article
- Intra-Relations of Biochemical Profiles Defining the Germination Potential of Medium-Term Cold-Stored Maize (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Climate and seed mass drive intraspecific variation in seed longevity in storage.American journal of botany · 2026Article
- Aging and longevity in decades-old genebanked seeds from U.S. endangered plant species: Assessments using survival and RNA integrity assays.American journal of botany · 2026Article
- The Influence of Cryopreservation and Low-Temperature Seed Storage on the Morphological and Agronomical Characteristics of Fiber Flax.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Morpho-Agronomic Characterization of an Unexploited Germplasm Collection of Cauliflower (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Unraveling the Mechanistic Basis for Control of Seed Longevity.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- An Effective and Safe Maize Seed Chipping Protocol Using Clipping Pliers With Applications in Small-Scale Genotyping and Marker-Assisted Breeding.Bio-protocol · 2025Article
- Applications of dry chain technology to maintain high seed viability in tropical climates.PeerJ · 2024Review
- Seed Longevity and Ageing: A Review on Physiological and Genetic Factors with an Emphasis on Hormonal Regulation.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Does Forced Plant Maturation by Applying Herbicide with Desiccant Action Influence Seed Longevity in Soybean?Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Physiological and molecular aspects of seed longevity: exploring intra-species variation in eight Pisum sativum L. accessions.Physiologia plantarum · 2022Article
- Comparative changes in sugars and lipids show evidence of a critical node for regeneration in safflower seeds during aging.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Relationship between the Characteristics of Bread Wheat Grains, Storage Time and Germination.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- A Critical Review of the Current Global Ex Situ Conservation System for Plant Agrobiodiversity. II. Strengths and Weaknesses of the Current System and Recommendations for Its Improvement.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsThe long-term conservation of seeds of plant genetic resources is of key importance for food security and preservation of agrobiodiversity. Nevertheless, there is scarce information available about seed longevity of many crops under germplasm bank conditions.
methodsThrough germination experiments as well as the analysis of historical monitoring data, we studied the decline in viability manifested by 1000 maize (Zea mays subsp. mays) seed accessions conserved for an average of 48 years at the CIMMYT germplasm bank, the largest maize seedbank in the world, under two cold storage conditions: an active (-3 °C; intended for seed distribution) and a base conservation chamber (-15 °C; for long-term conservation). KEY
resultsSeed lots stored in the active chamber had a significantly lower and more variable seed germination, averaging 81.4 %, as compared with the seed lots conserved in the base chamber, averaging 92.1 %. The average seed viability detected in this study was higher in comparison with that found in other seed longevity studies on maize conserved under similar conditions. A significant difference was detected in seed germination and longevity estimates (e.g. p85 and p50) among accessions. Correlating seed longevity with seed traits and passport data, grain type showed the strongest correlation, with flint varieties being longer lived than floury and dent types.
conclusionsThe more rapid loss of seed viability detected in the active chamber suggests that the seed conservation approach, based on the storage of the same seed accessions in two chambers with different temperatures, might be counterproductive for overall long-term conservation and that base conditions should be applied in both. The significant differences detected in seed longevity among accessions underscores that different viability monitoring and regeneration intervals should be applied to groups of accessions showing different longevity profiles.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.