Paper · 1965 · Journal of Experimental Botany

Dormancy in Rice Seed

E. H. ROBERTS

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Abstract

Serial germination tests were carried out on dormant seeds of six rice varieties (four varieties of Oryza sativa L. and two varieties of O. glaberrima Steud.) stored at several different constant temperatures within the range 27° C to 57° C. Probit analyses of the results were carried out to determme the mean dormancy period for each variety at each temperature. Regression lines fitted to these data showed that there is a direct negative relationship between storage temperature and log mean dormancy period over the range 27° C to 47° C, thus confirming a previous result obtained on a single variety. At 7° C there were indications of a slight departure from this relationship in that the mean dormancy periods at this temperature were slightly longer than would have been predicted by extrapolation of the regressions calculated from the results obtained at lower temperatures. In all cases where the results were unambiguous (i.e. in all the sativa varieties and one of the glaberrima varieties) a constant Q10 of 3.13 was shown for the rate of loss of dormancy over the range of storage temperatures from 27° C to 47° C. In the remaining glaberrima variety, where the results were less reliable, a Q10 of 2.54 was found. Germination tests on all varieties were carried out at 32° C, but in the case of one sativa variety germination tests for all storage treatments were also duplicated at 27° C. This investigation showed that, in contrast to the effect of storage temperature, the higher temperature during the germination test consistently resulted in a lower percentage germination. In addition the results demonstrated that there is no interaction between storage temperature and germination temperature: consequently the storage-temperature coefficient has the same value irrespective of germination temperature. Some theoretical implications of the results are discussed.

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Associationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Log mean dormancy period decreased linearly with increasing storage temperature from 27 to 47 °C.

Treatment
storage temperaturee1
Outcome
log mean dormancy periode1

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Regression lines fitted to these data showed that there is a direct negative relationship between storage temperature and log mean dormancy period over the range 27° C to 47° C”

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“Rice”

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Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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A constant Q10 of 3.13 described the rate of loss of dormancy over 27 to 47 °C storage.

Outcome
rate of loss of dormancye2
Value
3.13e2

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“a constant Q10 of 3.13 was shown for the rate of loss of dormancy over the range of storage temperatures from 27° C to 47° C”

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“Rice”

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Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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In the remaining glaberrima variety a Q10 of 2.54 was found.

Material
glaberrima varietye3
Outcome
Q10e3
Value
2.54e3

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Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“In the remaining glaberrima variety, where the results were less reliable, a Q10 of 2.54 was found”

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“Rice”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

A higher temperature during the germination test consistently gave a lower percentage germination.

Treatment
higher temperature during the germination teste4
Outcome
percentage germinatione4
Direction
lowere4

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“the higher temperature during the germination test consistently resulted in a lower percentage germination”

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“Rice”

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Associationobservedoriginal resultno effectmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

There was no interaction between storage temperature and germination temperature.

Treatment
storage temperaturee5
Outcome
interactione5

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“there is no interaction between storage temperature and germination temperature”

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“Rice”

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