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Discovery inside unearthed bottle would’ve shocked the scientist who buried it in 1879

In 1879, botanist William J. Beal filled 20 bottles with soil and seeds and buried them on what is now Michigan State University’s campus grounds. In April 2021, the 16th bottle was unearthed, and its ...
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Germination on the Space Station

“The beans and rocket seeds have germinated. The experiment is going well,” confirms ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori to ESA’s Mission Control Centre in Oberfaffenhofen, Germany. Marco Casucci (Azimuth ...
JSTOR Daily

Seedling emergence responds to both seed source and recruitment site climates: a climate change experiment combining transplant and gradient approaches

Seedling recruitment allows genetic recombination and production of dispersal units. Both the climate experienced by the source populations (seed source effect) and the weather experienced by the ...
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Seed Dormancy in Carex canescens: Regional Differences and Ecological Consequences

We compared the germination of seeds of Carex canescens from populations in four regions: northern and southern Sweden, and northern and southern Germany. Germination behaviour was expected to differ ...