They are simply waiting. Whether it’s an apple tree, a lilac bush, or a tiny seed buried in the soil, plants enter dormancy as a survival strategy against the cold. Dormancy is not just ...

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3, No. 3 (Mar., 1916), pp. 99-120 (22 pages) In closing let us consider a few of the more important general bearings of the facts treated in this paper. 1. Dormancy in seeds results generally from the ...

Scientists have a new target to prevent cold sores after University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers discovered an unexpected way the herpes virus re-activates in the body.

Huang Zhenying from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has discovered a remarkable survival strategy—a unique seed dormancy cycling mechanism in two desert ...