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Effects of Water Deficit during Germination of Wheat Seeds

Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: Germinating seeds of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) were tolerant to dehydration up to the 4th day following imbibition and from the 5th day the seedling survival decreased. Dehydration also inhibited the rate of seed dry mass depletion and seedling dry matter accumulation and increased the content of soluble sugars both in grain and seedlings. Glucose supplied either to dry seeds or to 4-d-old seedlings increased survival of dehydrated seedlings. In contrast, exogenously supplied non-readily metabolizable sorbose and mannose suppressed seedling survival.
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W92356231
FWCI: 0.951
Cites: 26
Cited by: 48
Related to: 10