Voorbeelden van dormancy

• They constitute a distribution of minimum water potentials just permitting induction of secondary dormancy during the 2 weeks of incubation.

• Finally, in red rice, both primary dormancy breaking and secondary dormancy inducibility follow decay kinetics during afterripening.

• Effects of dispersers, gaps, and predators on dormancy and seedling emergence in a tropical herb.

• Thus, in the absence of dormancy, delayed and slower rates of germination are evidence of reduced seed vigour and quality.

• Seedling emergence is restricted to spring because a number of environmental signals are required to break dormancy and/or to induce germination.

• Due to the fact that multiple environmental signals regulate dormancy, seedling emergence in these species is timed very accurately in spring.

• A longer period of storage in moist soil (approximately 15 d) was required to produce a decrease in the dormancy level of the seed population.

• The timing of seed transfer from storage to incubation was based on how rapidly seeds lost dormancy.