Claim · model-written summary
Seed fresh and dry weight increased to 75 DAP then decreased in phase three.
Verbatim
e0“Fresh and dry weight increase until 75 DAP (55% MC or physiological maturity, PM) and rapidly decrease during the third phase until 14% MC”
t0“Pea (Pisum sativum L.)”
Title
YVON LE DEUNFF; ZOHREH RACHIDIAN Journal of Experimental Botany 1988. doi:10.1093/jxb/39.9.1221
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation Pod fresh and dry weight increased until 75 days after planting.
- Observation Pod dry weight and moisture content then decreased rapidly.
- Observation Embryo formation occurred in the first phase at stable 85% moisture.
- Observation Cotyledon filling occurred as moisture fell from 84% to 55%.
- Observation Seed leakage conductivity decreased slowly through phase two and rapidly after physiological maturity.
- Observation Immature seed germination began at 62 DAP and reached up to 100% after physiological maturity.
- Observation Seedling growth was low in phase two and increased until physiological maturity.
- Observation Seedling growth was normal once germination reached up to 100%.
- Observation Hydration rate changed at 55% moisture content.
- Mechanism The authors inferred that moisture loss during filling prepares seeds for desiccation at physiological maturity.
- Observation Physiological maturity coincided with disruption of the pod to mother plant vascular connection.