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seed coatseed coat
  • noun

Synonyms for seed coat

nounprotective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants

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Notwithstanding, the role of the trans-resveratrol from tempeh as Indonesian soybean fermented food and soybean seed coat to neuroprotective effects requires considerable further study.
Pulses with a thin, amorphous seed coat tend to have higher rates of water absorption during the initial hydration phase versus those with thicker seed coats.
Seed coat morphology is known to be an important character for taxonomic and evolutionary studies (Koul et al., 2000; Abdel-Khalik, 2002; Tantawy et al., 2004; Karcz et al., 2005; Moazzeni et al., 2007; Pinar et al., 2007, 2009; Kaya et al., 2011; Mousavi and Sharifi-Rad, 2014).
Unlike these materials, seed coat extracts promoted greater inhibition on hypocotyls, when compared with rootlets, while the inhibition on rootlets was similar to those of the other extracts tested (Figure 1).
The difference in germination pattern of different coloured seeds could be related to the difference in seed maturity, which might affect seed coat structure and the balance between different hormones.
As many as 86.40[+ or -]1.52 percent seeds inoculated with this isolate entered stage 1 (seed coat rupturing) within 4.65[+ or -]0.28 weeks.
Outer epidermis of the developing seed coat of Elephantolus mollis (Figure 2C) and Parthenium hysterophorus is strikingly different from the other species herein investigated, due to the thickened cell walls.
Further observations suggest that the seed damage occurs primarily to the seed elaiosome and secondarily impacts the seed coat. Additionally, presence of exuvia and frass suggest that the moths are emerging late summer or early fall.
The coat-imposed seed dormancy (hardseededness) is due to either the impermeability of the coat to water and/or gases, the mechanical prevention of radicle extension, or the seed coat preventing inhibitory substances from leaving the embryo or by supplying inhibitors to the embryo [5, 6].
Tested in prestigious hospital research laboratories, two plant extracts, mung bean seed coat and green tea, extended life spans and increased survival rate caused by inflammation in blood poisoning (sepsis) by up to 82%.5,6
Differences in the structures of seed coat from one hull-less genotype and three hulled-seeded genotypes of squash (Cucurbita pepo and C.
Seeds tend to be well-protected by seed coat and other protective structures, they usually have a low metabolic rate and dormancy mechanisms that prevent germination, and they are known to be able to endure and survive adverse environmental conditions.
After the seed coat has cracked open, the plant is even more vulnerable to the uneven availability of water.
Dissected seeds had the entire pericarp removed so that only the seed and seed coat remained.