The crypsis hypothesis: a stenopic view of the selective factors in the evolution of physical dormancy in seeds

Conditions favouring hard seededness as a dispersal and predator escape strategy

(2014) Torbjørn R. Paulsen et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The evolution of seed dormancy: environmental cues, evolutionary hubs, and diversification of the seed plants

(2014) Charles G. Willis et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Identification and characterization of ten new water gaps in seeds and fruits with physical dormancy and classification of water-gap complexes

(2013) N. S. Gama-Arachchige et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Water-impermeable fruits of the parasitic angiosperm Cassytha filiformis (Lauraceae): confirmation of physical dormancy in Magnoliidae and evolutionary considerations

(2013) Niranjan Mahadevan et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Physical dormancy in seeds: a game of hide and seek?

(2013) Torbjørn Rage Paulsen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Seed dormancy and storage behaviour in tropical Fabaceae: a study of 100 species from Sri Lanka

(2013) K.M.G. Gehan Jayasuriya et al.   SEED SCIENCE RESEARCH

What kind of seed dormancy might palms have?

(2013) Jerry M. Baskin et al.   SEED SCIENCE RESEARCH

The autumn effect: timing of physical dormancy break in seeds of two winter annual species of Geraniaceae by a stepwise process

(2012) N. S. Gama-Arachchige et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Volatile fingerprints of seeds of four species indicate the involvement of alcoholic fermentation, lipid peroxidation, and Maillard reactions in seed deterioration during ageing and desiccation stress

(2012) Louise Colville et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Tanned or Burned: The Role of Fire in Shaping Physical Seed Dormancy

(2012) Bruno Moreira et al.   PLoS One

Water absorption and dormancy-breaking requirements of physically dormant seeds of Schizolobium parahyba (Fabaceae – Caesalpinioideae)

(2012) Thaysi Ventura de Souza et al.   SEED SCIENCE RESEARCH

Breaking physical dormancy of Cassia leptophylla and Senna macranthera (Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae) seeds: water absorption and alternating temperatures

(2012) Alexandre Souza de Paula et al.   SEED SCIENCE RESEARCH

Dormancy cycling in Arabidopsis seeds is controlled by seasonally distinct hormone-signaling pathways

(2011) S. Footitt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fire as an evolutionary pressure shaping plant traits

(2011) Jon E. Keeley et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Effects of soil temperature regimes after fire on seed dormancy and germination in six Australian Fabaceae species

(2010) Victor M. Santana et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Buoyancy, salt tolerance and germination of coastal seeds: implications for oceanic hydrochorous dispersal

(2010) Lydia K. Guja et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Seed survival in soil: interacting effects of predation, dormancy and the soil microbial community

(2010) James W. Dalling et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Heat Shock Germination Responses of Three Eastern North American Temperate Species

(2009) Jay F. Bolin   CASTANEA

Climate change and bet-hedging: interactions between increased soil temperatures and seed bank persistence

(2009) MARK K. J. OOI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sensitivity cycling and its ecological role in seeds with physical dormancy

(2009) K.M.G. Gehan Jayasuriya et al.   SEED SCIENCE RESEARCH

Physical Dormancy in Seeds of the Holoparasitic Angiosperm Cuscuta australis (Convolvulaceae, Cuscuteae): Dormancy-breaking Requirements, Anatomy of the Water Gap and Sensitivity Cycling

(2008) K. M. G. Gehan Jayasuriya et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Germination of an obligate seeder (Ulex parviflorus) and consequences for wildfire management

(2008) M. Jaime Baeza et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Salt tolerance and avoidance mechanisms at germination of annual pasture legumes: importance for adaptation to saline environments

(2008) P. G. H. Nichols et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Germination, Genetics, and Growth of an Ancient Date Seed

(2008) S. Sallon et al.   SCIENCE