Seed biology.

Seed biology is an intensive area of study, a reflection of the significance of seeds for several scientific areas. From an evolutionary perspective, the ability of plants to make seeds has conferred major selective advantages, accounting, in part, for the success of seed plants as the largest and most species-rich group of land plants. The seed habit facilitates fertilization in non-aqueous environments, provides a level of physical and biological protection for the female gametophyte and embryo, allows for the massive accumulation of storage proteins, lipids, and/or carbohydrates in the embryo and/or endosperm to serve as a nutrient reserve for the germinating seed and developing seedling, and permits the embryo to remain in a developmentally and metabolically quiescent state until environmental conditions permit germination to occur (Steeves 1983).

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

• Publication date

  2019-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/jipb.12808PMID 30920731
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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