Novel and emerging seed science research from early to middle career researchers at the Australasian Seed Science Conference, 2021

Are orthodox Australian rainforest seeds short-lived in storage?

(2023) Karen D. Sommerville et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Stepping up to the thermogradient plate: a data framework for predicting seed germination under climate change

(2022) Justin C Collette et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Myrtaceae in Australia: Use of Cryobiotechnologies for the Conservation of a Significant Plant Family under Threat

(2022) Lyndle K. Hardstaff et al.   Plants-Basel

Seed traits inform the germination niche for biodiverse ecological restoration

(2022) Emma L. Dalziell et al.   SEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Assessing the storage potential of Australian rainforest seeds: a decision-making key to aid rapid conservation

(2021) K. D. Sommerville et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Experimental seed sowing reveals seedling recruitment vulnerability to unseasonal fire

(2021) Russell G. Miller et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Integrating evolutionary potential and ecological function into agricultural seed production to meet demands for the decade of restoration

(2021) Elizabeth A. Leger et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Macroevolutionary patterns in seed component mass and different evolutionary trajectories across seed desiccation responses

(2020) Si‐Chong Chen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Seed storage: maintaining seed viability and vigor for restoration use

(2020) Marcello De Vitis et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Seed traits determine species' responses to fire under varying soil heating scenarios

(2020) Ryan Tangney et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Strong Legacy Effects of Prior Burn Severity on Forest Resilience to a High-Severity Fire

(2020) Lucas B. Harris et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Techniques for breaking seed dormancy of rainforest species from genus Acronychia

(2020) Ganesha S. Liyanage et al.   SEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Time travelling seeds reveal that plant regeneration and growth traits are responding to climate change

(2020) Susan E. Everingham et al.   ECOLOGY

Drought projections for Australia: Updated results and analysis of model simulations

(2020) Dewi G.C. Kirono et al.   Weather and Climate Extremes

Trade‐off or coordination? Correlations between ballochorous and myrmecochorous phases of diplochory

(2019) Si‐Chong Chen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Seed life span and food security

(2019) Louise Colville et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evidence for direct effects of fire-cues on germination of some perennial forbs common in grassy ecosystems

(2019) Joshua A. Hodges et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

The risk-takers and -avoiders: germination sensitivity to water stress in an arid zone with unpredictable rainfall

(2019) Corrine Duncan et al.   AoB Plants

Measuring metabolic rates of small terrestrial organisms by fluorescence-based closed-system respirometry

(2018) Sean Tomlinson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A research agenda for seed-trait functional ecology

(2018) Arne Saatkamp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Allometric relationships between masses of seed functional components

(2018) Si-Chong Chen et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Reduced metabolic rate indicates declining viability in seed collections: an experimental proof-of-concept

(2017) Emma L Dalziell et al.   Conservation Physiology

Seedling performance covaries with dormancy thresholds: maintaining cryptic seed heteromorphism in a fire-prone system

(2016) Ganesha S. Liyanage et al.   ECOLOGY

Lack of soil seedbank change with time since fire: relevance to seed supply after prescribed burns

(2016) Matthew P. Chick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Seed germination traits can contribute better to plant community ecology

(2016) Borja Jiménez-Alfaro et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Early life stages contribute strongly to local adaptation inArabidopsis thaliana

(2016) Froukje M. Postma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Legacy of Plant Invasions: Changes in the Soil Seed Bank of Invaded Plant Communities

(2015) Margherita Gioria et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Seed Sourcing for Restoration in an Era of Climate Change

(2015) Kayri Havens et al.   NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL

A continental-scale study of seed lifespan in experimental storage examining seed, plant, and environmental traits associated with longevity

(2014) David J. Merritt et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The ecophysiology of seed persistence: a mechanistic view of the journey to germination or demise

(2014) Rowena L. Long et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Will among-population variation in seed traits improve the chance of species persistence under climate change?

(2014) Anne Cochrane et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Impact of invasions by alien plants on soil seed bank communities: Emerging patterns

(2014) Margherita Gioria et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Seed bank persistence and climate change

(2012) Mark K.J. Ooi   SEED SCIENCE RESEARCH

Seed Traits and Genes Important for Translational Biology--Highlights from Recent Discoveries

(2011) C. Martinez-Andujar et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Restoration Seed Banks--A Matter of Scale

(2011) D. J. Merritt et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity and Climate Change: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecological Responses of Species and Communities

(2010) Sébastien Lavergne et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Climate change and plant regeneration from seed

(2010) JEFFREY L. WALCK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY