Claim · model-written summary
Immature seeds (green capsules or 60 days after pollination) showed some desiccation sensitivity, with germination up to halved.
- Taxon
- Arundina graminifolia
Arundina graminifoliat0 - Material
- Immature seedse0
- Outcome
- desiccation sensitivitye0
- Value
- germination halvinge0
Verbatim
e0“Immature seeds (either as green capsules [GC] or 60 days after pollination [DAP60]) had some level of desiccation sensitivity (up to germination halving)”
t0“Arundina graminifolia”
Title
Huan Dai; Kanchit Thammasiri; Lei Fan; et al. Cryoletters 2026. doi:10.54680/fr26410110212
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Mature Arundina graminifolia seeds retained high germination under the vast majority of humidity, temperature and storage-time combinations.
- Observation Immature seeds lost germination significantly during storage.
- Observation Seed maturity was confirmed by a decrease in the moisture content of fresh seeds.
- Observation Seed maturity was confirmed by an increase in lipid transition enthalpy from about 10 to 20 J per g dry weight.
- Observation Melting peak temperatures of dry seeds also confirmed seed maturity.
- Observation Differential scanning calorimetry showed that seeds equilibrated to 75% relative humidity or less were below the unfrozen moisture content.
- Observation Mature seeds of A. graminifolia seem to have orthodox seed storage behaviour.
- Recommendation Both cold storage and cryopreservation appear feasible for long-term ex situ conservation of the species.