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Germination and Seedling Development

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The responses of cotton (Gossypium spp.) seeds to the germination environment depend upon (1) the point in the germination-through-emergence sequence at which conditions cease to promote germination and seedling development, (2) the magnitude and duration of the deviations from conditions promotive of germination, and (3) seedling development ‘success’ potentials determined by the genetic and seed vigor of a particular cotton seed lot and genotype. Suboptimal environmental factors, both abiotic and biotic, modulate, delay, or terminate cotton seed germination and seedling development during any of the four universal phases of seed germination: (1) imbibition, (2) mobilization of seed reserves (cotyledonary lipids and proteins in cotton), (3) radicle protrusion and elongation through resumption of cell division, and (4) hypocotyls and cotyledon emergence above the soil with the shift from metabolic dependence on seed storage compounds to photosynthetic autotrophy. In cotton and other oilseeds, cotyledonary lipid mobilization depends upon subcellular organelle-cooperativity and membrane-transport phenomena elucidated as the gluconeogenic glyoxylate cycle of oilseed species.

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Bradow, J.M., Bauer, P.J. (2010). Germination and Seedling Development. In: Stewart, J.M., Oosterhuis, D.M., Heitholt, J.J., Mauney, J.R. (eds) Physiology of Cotton. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3195-2_5

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