title: The release of dormancy, a wake-up call for seeds to germinate.
abstract: Seed dormancy determines the timing of germination, thereby contributing to successful seedling establishment and plant fitness. The induction and release of dormancy are controlled by various regulators like plant hormones and dormancy proteins. The relative strengths of these regulators are influenced by environmental factors during seed maturation and storage. In the last few years additional processes have been identified to be involved in the release of dormancy during seed storage with an important role for non-enzymatic oxidative reactions. However, the relations between the different dormancy regulators are not fully understood yet. Finally, all accumulated information will be processed in the seed during early seed imbibition and lead to the decision to germinate or not.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Plant Biology and Biotechnology, University of Münster, Schlossplatz 7, 48149 Münster, Germany.
authors.forename: Guillaume
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Née
authors.affiliation: Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 518120 Shenzhen, China.
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829 Cologne, Germany; Institute of Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology of Plants (IMBIO), University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany. Electronic address: soppe@mpipz.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Wim Jj
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Soppe
mesh_terms: D018525:Germination; D057445:Plant Dormancy; D036226:Seedlings / Q000254:growth & development*; D012639:Seeds / Q000254:growth & development*