Germination

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A DELLAcate balance: the role of gibberellin in plant morphogenesis. 
  • A new role for phytochromes in temperature-dependent germination. 
  • An epigenetic pathway in rice connects genetic variation to anaerobic germination and seedling establishment. 
  • AtDSEL, an Arabidopsis cytosolic DAD1-like acylhydrolase, is involved in negative regulation of storage oil mobilization during seedling establishment. 
  • Can the Environment have a Genetic Basis? A Case Study of Seedling Establishment in Arabidopsis thaliana. 
  • Climate warming threatens the persistence of a community of disturbance-adapted native annual plants. 
  • Completing the cycle: maternal effects as the missing link in plant life histories. 
  • Contrasting germination responses to vegetative canopies experienced in pre- vs. post-dispersal environments. 
  • Cytosolic hydroxymethyldihydropterin pyrophosphokinase/dihydropteroate synthase from Arabidopsis thaliana: a specific role in early development and stress response. 
  • DOG1 expression is predicted by the seed-maturation environment and contributes to geographical variation in germination in Arabidopsis thaliana. 
  • Della proteins and gibberellin-regulated seed germination and floral development in Arabidopsis. 
  • Density-dependent mortality and the latitudinal gradient in species diversity. 
  • Disruption of endosperm development is a major cause of hybrid seed inviability between Mimulus guttatus and Mimulus nudatus. 
  • Distinct cell-specific expression patterns of early and late gibberellin biosynthetic genes during Arabidopsis seed germination. 
  • Diversification of phytochrome contributions to germination as a function of seed-maturation environment. 
  • Effects of Silver Nanoparticle Exposure on Germination and Early Growth of Eleven Wetland Plants 
  • Effects of calcium on seed germination, seedling growth and photosynthesis of six forest tree species under simulated acid rain. 
  • Environmental and genetic influences on the germination of Arabidopsis thaliana in the field. 
  • Evidence of adaptive divergence in plasticity: density- and site-dependent selection on shade-avoidance responses in Impatiens capensis. 
  • Geographical variation in postzygotic isolation and its genetic basis within and between two Mimulus species. 
  • Gibberellin Signaling Requires Chromatin Remodeler PICKLE to Promote Vegetative Growth and Phase Transitions. 
  • Major flowering time gene, flowering locus C, regulates seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana. 
  • Maternal vernalization and vernalization-pathway genes influence progeny seed germination. 
  • Microgeographic patterns of genetic divergence and adaptation across natural environments in Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae) 
  • Modeling seed dispersal distances: implications for transgenic Pinus taeda. 
  • Molecular analyses of the Arabidopsis TUBBY-like protein gene family. 
  • Multiple paths to similar germination behavior in Arabidopsis thaliana. 
  • Natural variation in germination responses of Arabidopsis to seasonal cues and their associated physiological mechanisms. 
  • Niche construction through germination cueing: life-history responses to timing of germination in Arabidopsis thaliana. 
  • Niche construction through phenological plasticity: life history dynamics and ecological consequences. 
  • Overexpression of CaDSR6 increases tolerance to drought and salt stresses in transgenic Arabidopsis plants. 
  • PIL5, a phytochrome-interacting bHLH protein, regulates gibberellin responsiveness by binding directly to the GAI and RGA promoters in Arabidopsis seeds 
  • Parental methylation mediates how progeny respond to environments of parents and of progeny themselves. 
  • Photoperiod throughout the maternal life cycle, not photoperiod during seed imbibition, influences germination in Arabidopsis thaliana . 
  • Phytochrome mediates germination responses to multiple seasonal cues. 
  • Regulation of hormone metabolism in Arabidopsis seeds: phytochrome regulation of abscisic acid metabolism and abscisic acid regulation of gibberellin metabolism. 
  • Seed after-ripening and dormancy determine adult life history independently of germination timing. 
  • Synergistic derepression of gibberellin signaling by removing RGA and GAI function in Arabidopsis thaliana. 
  • The autonomous flowering-time pathway pleiotropically regulates seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana. 
  • The earliest stages of adaptation in an experimental plant population: strong selection on QTLs for seed dormancy. 
  • The effect of seed-dispersal timing on seedling recruitment is modulated by environmental conditions that vary across altitude in a threatened palm. 
  • The evolutionary ecology of seed germination of Arabidopsis thaliana: variable natural selection on germination timing. 
  • The fitness benefits of germinating later than neighbors. 
  • The new RGA locus encodes a negative regulator of gibberellin response in Arabidopsis thaliana.