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Germination

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Germination and Growth Summary
1,058 words, approx. 4 pages
A seed is an enclosed, protected package of cells surrounding a miniature plant, the embryo, that can grow to form a copy of the plant bearing it. Seeds thus serve to spread and propagate plants, but they can also help the plant survive unfavorable...
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Germination Summary
512 words, approx. 2 pages
Seeds are usually shed from their parent plant in a mature dry state. The dry seed contains an embryo that is the next generation of the plant in miniature. Before the seed can grow, however, it must first emerge from the seed and establish itself as...
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Germination Summary
378 words, approx. 1 pages
Germination refers to the beginning of growth of a mature seed, to produce a small plant, or seedling. All seeds require access to adequate moisture and oxygen and a suitable temperature regime before they can germinate. The seeds of some species must...
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Germination Information
1,949 words, approx. 7 pages
Germination is the process whereby growth emerges from a period of dormancy. The most common example of germination is the sprouting of a seedling from a seed of an angiosperm or gymnosperm. However, the growth of a sporeling from a spore, for example...


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The Modern Language Review
Germinal.(Book Review)
07/01/2005: 559 words, approx. 2 pages
Germinal. By EMILE ZOLA. Trans. by ROGER PEARSON. London: Penguin. 2004. xlvi+546 pp. 7.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-140-44742-3. Roger Pearson's new English translation of Emile Zola's Germinal (1885) represents a thoroughly rigorous and often extremely well-written addition to the rapidly expanding corpus of...
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Plant Physiology
A role for brassinosteroids in germination in Arabidopsis
02/01/2001: 4,824 words, approx. 16 pages
A Role for Brassinosteroids in Germination in Arabidopsis' This paper presents evidence that plant brassinosteroid (BR) hormones play a role in promoting germination. It has long been recognized that seed dormancy and germination are regulated by the plant hormones abscisic acid (ABA) and...
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AP News
Tapped-out trees threaten frankincense
12/22/2006: 701 words, approx. 2 pages
A word to the wise men: The world may have plenty of gold and myrrh, but it could run short of frankincense.Trees in the Horn of Africa provide most of the world's supply of the prized incense that was carried to the infant Jesus by...
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AP News
Frequent fires imperil native plants
10/25/2007: 671 words, approx. 2 pages
The wind-driven infernos that are scarring vast swaths of Southern California's landscape may leave more than just a temporary path of destruction when they are finally extinguished.The wildfires could leave a legacy of environmental devastation that will be evident for years to come, scientists say,...
 


 

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