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TYPES OF DORMANCY. "Different seed dormancy classes exist among plant species, which can be divided in physiological dormancy, morphological dormancy, morphophysiological dormancy, physical dormancy and combinational dormancy. Physiological dormancy is most common and can be separated into deep and non-deep, of which the latter is the most prevalent and also the major form of dormancy in plant model species." https://lnkd.in/dgHUjzK View in LinkedIn

LACK OF CLARITY. “The borders between the living and the nonliving, between the Nature-made and the human-made appear to be constantly blurring.” (Sipper). https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn

"BUD DORMANCY prevents the outgrowth of buds, for instance in perennial plants during winter or in potato tubers, whereas seed dormancy prevents the germination of intact viable seeds during (temporary) favourable conditions in an otherwise unfavourable season. Both types of dormancy are characterized by very low metabolic activities and a temporary insensitivity to growth-promoting signals." https://lnkd.in/dgHUjzK View in LinkedIn

LARGE AND BLURRING BORDERLINE. "The fact that all the dominant modern theories consider that life progressively emerged from some kind of proto-organisms, strongly grounds the hypothesis of the existence of a large and blurring borderline between living and non-living, were the inert progressively fades into the living." https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn

TIMING CYCLES WITH SEASONS. "The duration of these different states widely varies between species and the timing of the transitions between them is highly regulated. This regulation ensures that the most vulnerable phases of the life cycle occur during favourable seasonal and environmental conditions. Two of the systems that control developmental transitions depend on dormancy mechanisms." https://lnkd.in/dgHUjzK View in LinkedIn

PLANT CYCLES. "Plants are bound to the location where they have established themselves and require developmental adaptations to survive unfavourable environmental conditions. Most plants cycle between different developmental states, starting with the seed, followed by the seedling, the vegetative phase, and finally the reproductive phase." https://lnkd.in/dgHUjzK View in LinkedIn

"SEED DORMANCY is an important component of plant fitness that causes a delay of germination until the arrival of a favourable growth season. Dormancy is a complex trait that is determined by genetic factors with a substantial environmental influence. Several of the tissues comprising a seed contribute to its final dormancy level. The roles of the plant hormones abscisic acid and gibberellin in the regulation of dormancy and germination have long been recognized." https://lnkd.in/dgHUjzK View in LinkedIn

FOUNTAIN OF STEM CELLS. "This developmental plasticity is made possible by the supply of undifferentiated stem cells from shoot meristems through the course of a plant’s life. The floral transition is executed by the product of genes that confer floral meristem identity." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

MERISTEMS ENSURE PLASTICITY. "Plants ensure that they reproduce in favourable conditions. This developmental plasticity is made possible by the supply of undifferentiated stem cells from shoot meristems through the course of a plant’s life." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

ADAPTATION. "Plants meet the challenge of environmental change with developmental change as an adaptation to their sessile lifestyle. For example, many plants control the time at which they flower by monitoring and responding to environmental stimuli like light quality, daylength and temperature." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn