Claim · model-written summary
Castela coccinea seeds germinated more in darkness than light.
- Taxon
- Castela coccinea
Castela coccineae0 - Treatment
- darknesse0
- Outcome
- germinatede0
- Direction
- higher percentagese0
- Comparator
- lighte0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“seeds of Castela coccinea germinated to higher percentages in darkness than in light”
Title
Fernanda Martínez-Gálvez; Carol C. Baskin; Johanna Croce; et al. New Forests 2023. doi:10.1007/s11056-023-09977-7
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Observation Most fresh viable keystone species seeds were nondormant.
- Observation Seed viability declined during dry-cold storage.
- Observation Three keystone species germinated more in light than dark.
- Observation Five species germinated equally well in light and darkness.
- Intervention effect Alternating rather than constant temperature did not affect germination in seven species.
- Observation Anisocapparis speciosa seeds were nondormant and viable for only one month of cold dry storage.
- Observation Cynophalla retusa seeds were nondormant and viable for only one month of cold dry storage.
- Observation Of the other seven species, 62–95% of seeds were nondormant.
- Observation Four species had physiological seed dormancy and one had physical dormancy.
- Intervention effect Habitat warm stratification after dispersal promoted dormancy breaking.
- Recommendation Castela coccinea was recommended for Dry Chaco restoration due to high germination and retained dry storage viability.
- Recommendation Achatocarpus praecox was recommended for Dry Chaco restoration.
- Recommendation Mimosa detinens was recommended for Dry Chaco restoration.
- Recommendation Capparicordis tweedieana was recommended for Dry Chaco restoration.
- Observation Mimosa detinens seeds required mechanical scarification to break dormancy.
- Observation Capparicordis tweedieana seeds required six weeks of warm stratification to break dormancy.