dormancy
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Dormancy also helps some disease-causing germs evade attack; waking them early could improve treatments, so “there’s a lot of applied interest in how to get spores to germinate rapidly,” Setlow adds.
From Scientific American • Dec. 29, 2022
Dormancy is a “virtual metabolic standstill,” wrote Capon, who died last year but was a professor of botany at California State University, Los Angeles, for decades.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2022
Dormancy can allow for long-distance seed dispersal, making it possible for seeds to germinate under more ideal conditions.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
Dormancy comes only after the first frost sufficiently heavy to kill the leaves, usually about two months after nut harvest is completed.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Vocabulary lists containing dormancy
Plants (Botany) - High School
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