Claim · model-written summary
Very low light intensities inhibited decoated seeds.
- Taxon
- CITRULLUS COLOCYNTHIS
Citrullus colocynthist0 - Treatment
- Very low light intensitiese0
- Outcome
- decoated seedse0
- Direction
- inhibite0
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Verbatim
e0“Very low light intensities sufficed to inhibit decoated seeds”
t0“CITRULLUS COLOCYNTHIS”
Title
GERMINATION‐REGULATING MECHANISMS IN CITRULLUS COLOCYNTHIS
D. Koller; A. Poljakoff‐Mayber; A. Berg; et al. American Journal of Botany 1963. doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1963.tb07233.x
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Intact mature dry seeds did not germinate under a wide variety of conditions.
- Intervention effect Opening or removing the testa made germination possible.
- Intervention effect Other pretreatments, including ones modifying or piercing the testa, did not induce germination.
- Observation No inhibitors were found in the testa.
- Intervention effect Continuous light below 25 C inhibited germination of decoated seeds.
- Intervention effect Removing the inner seed membrane removed light inhibition of germination.
- Intervention effect Continuous light greatly reduced naked embryo growth at all temperatures and strongly influenced early development.
- Intervention effect The intact inner seed membrane inhibited germination in light below 25 C but had no effect in darkness.
- Mechanism Moist filter paper reproduced the membrane inhibitory effect, suggesting interference with respiratory gas exchange.
- Observation At least 12‐hr daily illumination was required for significant inhibition.
- Intervention effect Blue visible light was most inhibitory.
- Observation Light perception was located in the radicular embryo portions.