Seeds Collection

Guest edited by Professor Christine Foyer, Professor Ilse Kranner and Dr Wanda Waterworth

Seeds underpin global agriculture and natural ecosystems. Understanding seed biology is fundamental to help mitigate the effects of changing climates and population growth to crop production and ecosystems threatened by environmental change. In this collection published in the Biochemical Journal, guest edited by Professor Christine Foyer, Professor Ilse Kranner and Dr Wanda Waterworth, articles highlight current research in seed biology, providing new insight into aspects ranging from seed development, seed longevity and germination to nutritional aspects of seeds. This work ranges from the fundamental biological mechanisms that underlie the development, storability and subsequent germination of seeds, to the applications of seed science, including resilience of seed germination under stress.

• Handing off iron to the next

  Credits: Handing off iron to the next generation: how does it get into seeds and what for?

  generation: how does it get into seeds and what for? 
  Stéphane Mari, Christophe Bailly and Sébastien Thomine  
  
  
• The search for candidate genes associated with natural variation of grain Zn accumulation in barley
  Amelie Detterbeck, Manuela Nagel, Stefan Rensch, Michael Weber, Andreas Börner, Daniel P. Persson, Jan Kofod Schjoerring, Vesselin Christov and Stephan Clemens
  
  
• Molecular and environmental factors regulating seed longevity
  Julia Zinsmeister, Olivier Leprince and Julia Buitink
  
  
• The signalling role of ROS in the regulation of seed germination and dormancy
  Christophe Bailly
  
  
• Dynamic hydrolase labelling as a marker for seed quality in Arabidopsis seeds
  Natanael Viñegra de la Torre, Farnusch Kaschani, Markus Kaiser, Renier A. L. van der Hoorn, Wim J. J. Soppe and Johana C. Misas Villamil
  
  
• Abscisic acid-determined seed vigour differences do not influence redox regulation during ageing
  Christina Schausberger, Thomas Roach, Wolfgang Stöggl, Erwann Arc, William E. Finch-Savage and Ilse Kranner
  
  
• Redox poise and metabolite changes in bread wheat seeds are advanced by priming with hot steam
  Davide Gerna, Thomas Roach, Erwann Arc, Wolfgang Stöggl, Margherita Limonta, Patrizia Vaccino and Ilse Kranner
  
  
• New structural insights into anomeric carbohydrate recognition by frutalin, an α-D-galactose-binding lectin from breadfruit seeds
  Antonio Eufrásio Vieira Neto, Felipe Domingos de Sousa, Humberto D'Muniz Pereira, Frederico Bruno Mendes Batista Moreno, Marcos Roberto Lourenzoni, Thalles Barbosa Grangeiro, Ana Cristina de Oliveira Monteiro Moreira and Renato de Azevedo Moreira