This can sometimes mean more stress cracks or mechanical damage, but germination percentages are generally reported to be good and it appears that seed quality isn’t much of an issue.

IN his Friday evening discourse at the Royal Institution on November 3 on “Germination of Seeds”, Sir Arthur Hill discussed the many ingenious devices for the protection of the seed and ...

The moment a seed starts to grow is called ‘Germination’. Some people plant seeds in pots or in gardens to germinate. Plants in the wild have many different ways of scattering their seeds ...

All seeds contain specialized cells that mobilize and grow when the germination process is triggered by moisture, temperature and sometimes light. Moisture and stored nutrients energize the embryo ...