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On criteria to use in studies of seed evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2007

M.G. Nikolaeva
M.G. Nikolaeva
Affiliation:
Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2, Professor Popov, St. Petersburg, 197376, Russia
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A critical analysis of different criteria used in investigating seed diversity was made. It is concluded that the most promising way to understand the evolution of seeds is to study not only their morphological features, as used by most workers in the field, but also the physiological diversity of seeds in connection with the taxonomic system of plants, together with their ecological and geographical peculiarities.

Keywords

phylogenetic relationships of seedsseed dormancy classificationseed evolutionseed morphologyseed physiology

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Research Article
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Seed Science Research , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 2004, pp. 315 - 320
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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