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When Breaking Seed Dormancy Is a Problem

Try a Move-along Experiment

Carol C Baskin and Jerry M Baskin
Native Plants Journal, March 2003, 4 (1) 17-21; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/npj.4.1.17
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The move-along experiment is a double germination phenology study that is easy to use, does not require large numbers of seeds, and allows one to determine if summer only, winter only, or a summer-winter sequence of temperatures is required for dormancy break in seeds with water-permeable seed (or fruit) coats. Two temperature profiles (simulating 1-y cycles proceeding from winter to winter or summer to summer) and control treatments (seeds kept continuously at each temperature regime) are run concurrently. For most species, the combination of dormancy-breaking temperatures required for germination can be determined in 1 y with this technique.

  • seed germination
  • cold stratification
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  • Kartesz and Meacham (1999)
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