a more practical option for most home growers is to use sandpaper or a nail file to scratch the seed's protective coat enough ...

Growing plants from seeds rather than from nursery starts has many advantages and can be an awe-inspiring experience. By ...

When dormancy is broken, the embryo inside the seed receives a signal ... depending on the thickness of the seed coat. Food ...

Everything that lives on Earth has a life cycle, plants included. A plant begins life, it grows, it reproduces, and eventually it dies. Plants begin their lives as tiny seeds which can grow into ...

Unstratified seeds can be made to germinate by removal of the seed coats 1, and experiments performed ... The shoot apex of the embryo appears to be the main part of the seedling which requires ...