Sentence examples for long-term seed from inspiring English sources

But this spring, as thanks for the city's help, the Millennium Seed Bank bought the plant center a climate-control unit so it could start its own long-term seed bank.

His work showed that long-term seed storage was not only feasible but also relatively inexpensive, and he played a key role in setting up and managing seed banks.

Therefore, cryopreservation offers a viable long-term seed storage option (Popova et al. 2016).

Heat-resistance tests were conducted by applying a simple heat test based on known temperature and temperature residence times occurring in savannah fires and complemented by tests to reveal the impact of heat on germination since long-term seed dormancy is known for Adansonia.

Investigations into long-term seed storage have shown B. acanthopoda to store well under standard genebank storage conditions.

Even though remnant native species may have much smaller population sizes than the invader, they may retain more genetic diversity than exotics, simply because they have not gone through a recent introduction bottleneck, and they may have long-term seed banks that house significant genetic diversity (Table 2A; Nunney 2002; Waples 2006).

Besides histological studies, little is known about the physiology of storage product deposition and how storage products influence germination behavior and long term seed storability (Schwallier et al. 2011; Colville et al. 2016).

Finally, a group of species associated with the pioneer Rhynchosporion vegetation of bare peat areas had very low germination, suggesting an intermediate or deep seed dormancy and a long term seed bank.

Starch is the principal polymeric storage form of glucose, and is stored either transiently in leaves or long-term in seeds [ 41].

In contrast, the maize Krug Yellow Dent long-term divergent seed-size selection experiment resulted in a combination of soft and hard sweeps associated with the fixation of alleles of opposite effects clustered in two genomic regions [ 42].

Using data from marked plants, a long-term study of seed viability, and a seed bank census, we created a deterministic model and three stochastic models.