Darwin Review - Journal of Experimental Botany 62: 3289-3309 (2011)

First off the mark: early seed germination

Karin Weitbrecht*, Kerstin Müller*, Gerhard Leubner-Metzger

University of Freiburg, Faculty of Biology, Institute for Biology II, Botany / Plant Physiology, Schänzlestr. 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany, Web: 'The Seed Biology Place' http://www.seedbiology.de (K.W., K.M., G.L.-M.)
Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888, University Drive, Burnaby BC, V5A 1S6, Canada (K.M.)
*Joint first authors: K.W., K.M.

Received December , 2010; accepted February 23, 2010; published online April 12, 2010
DOI 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03249.x


GA Arabidopsis seed
Figure 7. Gibberellins (GA) contents in germinating Arabidopsis thaliana seeds and the effect of moist cold stratification.
(A) Important steps of GA biosyntheses, degradation and signalling.
(B) Endogenous contents of bioactive GA4 and GA1 in non-stratified germinating seeds incubated in the light at 22ºC.
(C) The effect of moist cold stratification on the endogenous contents of bioactive GA4 and GA1. GA-values of seeds imbibed in darkness (which inhibits germination) for 96 h are compared for 4ºC and 22ºC.
Results are from from Ogawa et al. (2003) (B) and Yamauchi et al. (2004) (C).

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