The Seed Biology Place

Darwin Review - Journal of Experimental Botany 62: 3289-3309 (2011)

First off the mark: early seed germination

Karin Weitbrecht*, Kerstin Müller*, Gerhard Leubner-Metzger

University of Freiburg, Faculty of Biology, Institute for Biology II, Botany / Plant Physiology, Schänzlestr. 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany, Web: 'The Seed Biology Place' http://www.seedbiology.de (K.W., K.M., G.L.-M.)
Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888, University Drive, Burnaby BC, V5A 1S6, Canada (K.M.)
*Joint first authors: K.W., K.M.

Received December , 2010; accepted February 23, 2010; published online April 12, 2010
DOI 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03249.x

Figure 5. Abscisic acid (ABA) contents in germinating Arabidopsis thaliana seeds and the effect of moist cold stratification.
(A) Important steps of ABA biosyntheses, degradation and signalling; see main text for details.
(B) Endogenous contents of ABA in germinating seeds and the effect of moist cold stratification. After-ripened seeds were incubated at 4 ºC in the dark which inhibits germination (cold stratification). Germination occurs during subsequent incubation at 22 ºC in the light and is completed by endosperm rupture. Data on seed ABA contents for drawing the diagram are from Chiwocha et al. (2005).

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