Plant Regeneration from Seeds
A Global Warming Perspective
- 1st Edition - March 17, 2022
- Latest edition
- Editors: Carol C. Baskin, Jerry M. Baskin
- Language: English
Plant Regeneration from Seeds: A Global Warming Perspective comprehensively reviews the effects caused by climate change on global plant regeneration, growth and seed germin… Read more
Plant Regeneration from Seeds: A Global Warming Perspective comprehensively reviews the effects caused by climate change on global plant regeneration, growth and seed germination. Initial chapters discuss specific geographical regions such as steppes, the artic, boreal and alpine zones, dry and tropical forests and deserts. Subsequent chapters explore special seed-related topics like fire, soil seed banks, crops, weed emergence, and invasive species Written by leaders in the field of seed germination and plant growth, this is an essential read for researchers and academics interested in plant growth, plant regeneration, seed germination and the effects of these in relation to climate change.
- Guides readers through the global effects of climate change on plant growth and seed germination, including chapters on special seed-related topics
- Provides fundamental research on plant regeneration
- Includes detailed coverage on specific geographic regions
Undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers focusing on plant science, specifically plant biology, and the effects of climate change on seed germination
Part 1 Geographical regions
1. Cold deserts of central Asia
2. Steppes
3. Arctic
4. Boreal
5. Tibet Plateau –subalpine
6. Alpine zone –Europe
7. Alpine zone – South America
8. Temperate zone forests
9. Dry tropical forests
10. Tropical savannahs (incl. cerrado in Brazil)
11. Hot deserts
12. Tropical montane forests
Part 2 Special seed-related topics
13. Recalcitrant seeds (if they dry out they die)
14. Fire --- Boreal forests and Australia
15. Soil seed banks
16. Crops such as coffee and cacao
17. Timing of weed seed emergence
18. Seagrasses
19. Invasive species, especially trees
Summary chapter
1. Cold deserts of central Asia
2. Steppes
3. Arctic
4. Boreal
5. Tibet Plateau –subalpine
6. Alpine zone –Europe
7. Alpine zone – South America
8. Temperate zone forests
9. Dry tropical forests
10. Tropical savannahs (incl. cerrado in Brazil)
11. Hot deserts
12. Tropical montane forests
Part 2 Special seed-related topics
13. Recalcitrant seeds (if they dry out they die)
14. Fire --- Boreal forests and Australia
15. Soil seed banks
16. Crops such as coffee and cacao
17. Timing of weed seed emergence
18. Seagrasses
19. Invasive species, especially trees
Summary chapter
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- Latest edition
- Published: March 17, 2022
- Language: English
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Carol C. Baskin
Over 50 years’ experience in seed germination ecology, biogeography, and evolution of seed dormancy and germination. Dr Baskin has a Ph.D. in biology from Vanderbilt University and has held several teaching posts in the fields of agricultural sciences and biology in the US and Europe. Dr Baskin’s current research at the University of Kentucky focuses on the life cycle and germination ecology of woody and herbaceous species of angiosperms; biology, conservation, and geographical ecology of plant taxa endemic to cedar (limestone) glades of unglaciated eastern United States; and plant geography of Kentucky.
She has written several publications on the subject of seed germination, most notably Seeds: Ecology, biogeography, and evolution of dormancy (Elsevier), in collaboration with her husband Dr Jerry M. Baskin.
Affiliations and expertise
School of Biological Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USAJB
Jerry M. Baskin
Dr Baskin received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in June 1967 and after 1 year of postdoctoral work at the University of Florida joined the University of Kentucky (UK) Biology faculty in 1968. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1981and retired from UK in June 2011. Almost all of his publications are co-authored with Carol C. Baskin. He has approximately 520 journal articles plus 14 book chapters and 10 publications in symposium and conference proceedings. The first edition of “Seeds” was published in 1998 and the second edition in 2014. The book on rock outcrops and barrens (co-edited with J. Fralish and R. Anderson) was published in 1999.
Affiliations and expertise
School of Biological Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USARead Plant Regeneration from Seeds on ScienceDirect