Publications by authors named "Keyvan Maleki"
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- The English yew is an evergreen tree found across Europe and North Africa, but its populations are declining due to habitat loss linked to human activities.
- A four-year study investigated why yew seeds are not successfully regenerating, focusing on issues like seed germination, dormancy, and predation by animals.
- The research identified seed predation and morphophysiological dormancy as key factors affecting regeneration, with recommendations for further studies to assess the impact of seed predation on the survival of yew seedlings.
In every agricultural system, weed seeds can be found in every cubic centimeter of soil. Weed seeds, as a valuable trait underlying the fate of weed populations, exhibit differing levels of seed dormancy, ensuring their survival under uncertain conditions. Seed dormancy is considered as an innate mechanism that constrains germination under suitable conditions that would otherwise stimulate germination of nondormant seeds.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGermination timing is an important determinant of survival and niche breadth of plants. The annual plant occurs in diverse environments along a steep temperature gradient and thus is a suitable model for the study of germination behavior in response to temperature. We used a modeling approach to compare the germination thermal niche of seeds of nine populations of produced in a common garden.
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