germination

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germinate
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈdʒɜr·məˌneɪt/
to start growing, or to cause a seed to start growing:
[ I ]This community is where the seeds of Gandhi’s philosophy germinated.

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Seeds made water-permeable by boiling imbibed water, and thus germinated, at a much slower rate than those made water-permeable by mechanical scarification.
Only two of 221 seeds (<1%) monitored beneath the study tree or in the experimental plots germinated, one after its seed coat was damaged.
In this experiment, 4 replicate batches of 100 seeds of each treatment combination were stored and after treatment seeds were germinated as described above.
None of the untreated seeds germinated, although all appeared healthy when cut open at the end of the experiment.
Between 60 and 80 % of seeds germinated after six months storage at 12.8 % moisture content.
At the commencement of the emergence trial, germinated seeds (radicle protrusion of 1-2 mm) were selected from each treatment and planted.
Under aerobic conditions, seeds germinated more rapidly at lower salinity.
Seeds with radicles 2 mm were considered to be germinated and thus discontinued for the imbibition tests.
None of the caryopses matured in this regime germinated at zero time compared with an initial germination of 42% for the well-watered control.
Under these conditions the hydropriming pretreatment could be prolonged up to 5 d since none of the seeds germinated by this time.
The majority of the seeds germinated within 7 d of being exposed to the alternating temperature/light regimes.
Germination trials were continued for a period of 30 days, during which time seeds were examined every second day and germinated seeds counted and removed.
Aged seeds were less vigorous, but they were not dead since they had almost all germinated after 7 d (results not shown).
Because the latter phenomenon is so closely tied to environmental attributes, the physical surroundings of germinating seeds will be discussed first.
A favourite experimental system for these studies has been the germinating seed.
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