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The Role of Hormones During Seed Development

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Plant Hormones and their Role in Plant Growth and Development

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The formation of a seed in the life cycle of higher plants is a unique adaptation. It incorporates embryo development with various physiological processes that are meant to insure the survival of the plant in the next generation. These adaptations include the accumulation of nutritive reserves, an arrest of tissue growth and development, and finally desiccation. To survive long periods of time in this dry state until environmental conditions are favorable to resume development into a seedling, numerous seeds have also acquired different mechanisms of dormancy. All of these traits are also of considerable agronomic importance (e.g. nutritive value, yield, germination).

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  1. Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, 97331-2902, USA

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Quatrano, R.S. (1987). The Role of Hormones During Seed Development. In: Davies, P.J. (eds) Plant Hormones and their Role in Plant Growth and Development. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3585-3_26

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