Dawei Yan

TL;DR: The role of the endosperm during seed germination has been investigated in this article. But, it is not known whether the embryo secretes signals to the endo-sperm to induce the degradation of the seed reserve and to promote endo weakening during germination.

TL;DR: It is shown that the Arabidopsis NIN-like protein 8 (NLP8) is essential for nitrate-promoted seed germination, and that NLP8 localizes to nuclei and unlike NLP7, does not appear to be activated byNitrate-dependent nuclear retention of N LP7, suggesting that seeds have a unique mechanism for nitrates signalling.

TL;DR: The presence of a decision-making center within the root tip of dormant seeds is reported and it is demonstrated that it shares a similar configuration as some systems within the human brain, to process variable temperature inputs from the environment to promote the breaking of dormancy.

TL;DR: In this paper, an update of the current understanding of the regulation of seed dormancy and germination by nitrate is presented. But this work is limited to the Arabidopsis thaliana and hedge mustard Sisymbrium officinale.

TL;DR: All the sal1 phenotypes published in the past two decades are collated, and the SAL1-PAP pathway is proposed as a case study for integrating chloroplast retrograde signaling, light signaling and hormonal signaling in plant growth and morphogenesis.