Responses of Germination to Light and to Far-Red Radiation—Can they be Predicted from Diaspores Size?

Luís Silva Dias, Elsa Ganhão and Alexandra Soveral Dias
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Luís Silva Dias: Department of Biology, University of Évora, Ap. 94, 7000-554 Évora, Portugal
Elsa Ganhão: Department of Biology, University of Évora, Ap. 94, 7000-554 Évora, Portugal
Alexandra Soveral Dias: Department of Biology, University of Évora, Ap. 94, 7000-554 Évora, Portugal

Data, 2020, vol. 5, issue 2, 1-13

Abstract: This paper presents an update of a dataset of seed volumes previously released online and combines it with published data of the photoblastic response of germination of fruits or seeds (light or dark conditions), and of the effects of enhanced far-red radiation on germination. Some evidence was found to support that germination in larger diaspores might be indifferent to light or dark conditions. Similarly, germination in smaller diaspores might be inhibited by far-red radiation. However, the length, width, thickness, volume, shape, type of diaspore, or relative amplitude of volume is essentially useless to predict photoblastic responses or the effects of far-red radiation on germination of diaspores.

Keywords: diaspore shape; diaspore size; inhibition of germination by far-red radiation; germination in light and dark (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C8 C80 C81 C82 C83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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