Seed size and weight are important determinants of plant fitness and seed yield. Larger seeds generally have higher fitness as they are better able to support initial growth. However, smaller seeds disperse more widely and some plants have evolved adaptations allowing smaller seeds to thrive in less favorable conditions. Seed size also depends on factors like drought, variety, and time of year. While seed weight varies within and between species, it is generally a consistent characteristic, though environmental factors can produce undersized seeds. The largest and smallest seeds on record are from the double coconut palm and certain epiphytic orchids, respectively.
Seed size and weight are important determinants of plant fitness and seed yield. Larger seeds generally have higher fitness as they are better able to support initial growth. However, smaller seeds disperse more widely and some plants have evolved adaptations allowing smaller seeds to thrive in less favorable conditions. Seed size also depends on factors like drought, variety, and time of year. While seed weight varies within and between species, it is generally a consistent characteristic, though environmental factors can produce undersized seeds. The largest and smallest seeds on record are from the double coconut palm and certain epiphytic orchids, respectively.
Seed size and weight are important determinants of plant fitness and seed yield. Larger seeds generally have higher fitness as they are better able to support initial growth. However, smaller seeds disperse more widely and some plants have evolved adaptations allowing smaller seeds to thrive in less favorable conditions. Seed size also depends on factors like drought, variety, and time of year. While seed weight varies within and between species, it is generally a consistent characteristic, though environmental factors can produce undersized seeds. The largest and smallest seeds on record are from the double coconut palm and certain epiphytic orchids, respectively.
Seed size and weight are important determinants of plant fitness and seed yield. Larger seeds generally have higher fitness as they are better able to support initial growth. However, smaller seeds disperse more widely and some plants have evolved adaptations allowing smaller seeds to thrive in less favorable conditions. Seed size also depends on factors like drought, variety, and time of year. While seed weight varies within and between species, it is generally a consistent characteristic, though environmental factors can produce undersized seeds. The largest and smallest seeds on record are from the double coconut palm and certain epiphytic orchids, respectively.
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Seed size vs Seed weight
What is seed size?
• Seed size is a key determinant of evolutionary fitness, and is also one of the most important components of seed yield. • In angiosperms seed development begins with double fertilization which leads to the formation of a diploid embryo and a triploid sperm. • Seed size is often related to the relative growth speed; smaller seed develop more quickly than larger ones. • But not alwayes it was concluded that small seeded species only sometime possess additional adaptations for rapid growth over and above their general size advantage. • The size of seed is known to affect the fitness of the plant growing from it; larger seeds are often have the higher fitness • Based on the assumption that most seed size variation will be found among genotypes, reduction in the variance of seed size, due to selection towards seed of similar and larger sizes have been predicted but unfortunately,not observed. • Small seeded plants also tended to have shorter life spans with the rapid turnover linked to more rapid evolution • Large seed are better able to support themselves intialy, while smaller seeds have a better chance for dispersal over a wide area, helping at least some seedlings survive. • Plants also have evolved different adaptations to their sprouting environment, helping some smaller seeds thrive in drier less nutritous soils, while larger seeds often are able to take advantage of richer soils that hold water better. • Smaller seeds are quicker to ripen and can be dispersed sooner.so fall blooming plants often have small seeds. • Many annual plants produce graet quantities of smaller seeds this helps to ensure at least a few Will end in a favorable place for growth. • Herbaceous perennial and Woody plants often have larger seeds they can produce seeds over many years and larger seeds have more energy reserve for germination and seedlings, growth and produce larger,more established seedlings after germination. Seed weight The moisture content of a seed sample is the loss in weight when it is dried It is expressed as a percentage of the weight of original sample. The 1000 kernal weight is a measure of seed size.It is a weight in grams of 1000 seeds Seed size and the 1000k weight can vary from one crop to another b/w varieties of the same crop and even from year to year or from field to field of the same variety • In periods of drought and moisture deficiency in the soil,undersize and lightweight seeds develop on plants • Variation in seed weight is common within and among plant species. • Seed traits, including seed weight and germination are critical characters of the life histories of higher plants and their importance to plant fitness is widely appreciated. • Seed weight within plant spp is considered to be a remarkable constant characteristic and selection was predicted to produce one optimal seed weight within maternal plant. • The largest seed is produce by the Coco de mer or “double coconut palm” Lodoicea maldivica • The entire fruit may weigh up 23kg (50pounds) and usually contain single seed. • Smallest seeds are produced by epiphytic orchids. • They only 85micrometer long and weigh 0.81micro gram
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