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Seeds can be dormant for several reasons:
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Environmental Conditions: Seeds often require specific environmental cues, such as temperature and moisture levels, to break dormancy and germinate. This ensures that they sprout during optimal conditions for survival.
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Physical Barriers: Some seeds have hard outer coatings that prevent water absorption and gas exchange, inhibiting germination until the coating is damaged or worn away.
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Chemical Inhibitors: Dormancy can also be regulated by chemical compounds within the seed that suppress germination until conditions are favorable, which helps to prevent premature sprouting.
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How does a seed becomes dormant?
A flower seed becomes dormant over the passage of time. Flower seeds that sit over a long time and becomes dried out and shriveled, it will cease to be effective and will turn dormant.
Do all seeds germinate immediately after they are dispersed?
No, in fact some seeds lay dormant for many years and others are triggered by heat (only germinate after a forest fire).
Do all seeds germinate immediately after they dispersed?
No, in fact some seeds lay dormant for many years and others are triggered by heat (only germinate after a forest fire).
Why do seeds have a shell?
Seeds have a shell to protect the embryo inside from physical damage, dehydration, and predators. The shell acts as a barrier, helping the seed to stay dormant until conditions are favorable for germination.
What are three different types of Volcanoes?
Active, dormant, and extinct.
How do you write a sentence with the word dormant?
The seeds are dormant but alive.
In winter these seeds are .?
dormant
Seeds can lie dormant for many years unit?
conditions are right for growth.
What are microbiotic mesobiotic and macrobiotic seeds?
Microbiotic seeds are those from which grains develop, macrobiotic seeds lead to fruit formation, while mesobiotic seeds are those that can survive in a dormant state.
How does a seed becomes dormant?
A flower seed becomes dormant over the passage of time. Flower seeds that sit over a long time and becomes dried out and shriveled, it will cease to be effective and will turn dormant.
How does a flower seed become dormant?
A flower seed becomes dormant over the passage of time. Flower seeds that sit over a long time and becomes dried out and shriveled, it will cease to be effective and will turn dormant.
What kind of seeds live through cold winters but do not sprout until spring?
Dormant
How do plants survive short growing season?
either by becoming dormant or producing seeds
Dormant seeds are stimulated to sprout by the effect of?
a number of things, although temperature is normally the catalyst.
What has the author Hope Sherman written?
Hope Sherman has written: 'Respiration of dormant seeds ..' -- subject(s): Dormancy, Dormancy in plants, Plants, Respiration, Seeds
Is a dormant seed alive or dead?
it is nonliving Seed is living as it has got capacity to grow to a plant under favourable conditions. Life is dormant in seeds. Seeds become dead under unfavourable storage conditions. What is life? In simple terms life is the ability to multiply. Seeds may need energy to keep living as we say seeds are living under favourable conditions. The energy needs may be minimal.
The seeds of can lie dormant for hundreds of years before they start to grow?
until conditions are right for growth
