Handbook of seed physiology: applications to agriculture

Sect. I. Germination in the soil and stand establishment

Ch. 1. Seedbed preparation - the soil physical environment of germinating seeds / Amos Hadas

Ch. 2. use of population-based threshold models to describe and predict the effects of seedbed environment on germination and seedling emergence of crops / William E. Finch-Savage

Ch. 3. Seed and agronomic factors associated with germination under termperature and water stress / Mark A. Bennett

Ch. 4. Methods to improve seed performance in the field / Peter Halmer

Sect. II. Dormancy and the behavior of crop and weed seeds

Ch. 5. Inception, maintenance, and termination of dormancy in grain crops : physiology, genetics, and environmental control / Roberto L. Benech-Arnold

Ch. 6. Preharvest sprouting of cereals / Gary M. Paulsen and Andrew S. Auld

Ch. 7. exit from dormancy and the induction of germination : physiological and molecular aspects / Rodolfo A. Sanchez and R. Alejandra Mella

Ch. 8. Modeling changes in dormancy in weed soil seed banks : implications for the prediction of weed emergence / Diego Batlla, Betina Claudia Kruk and Roberto L. Benech-Arnold

Sect. III. Seed longevity and storage

Ch. 9. Orthodox seed deterioration and its repair / Miller B. McDonald

Ch. 10. Recalcitrant seeds / Patricia Berjak and Norman W. Pammenter

Sect. IV. Industrial quality of seeds

Ch. 11. Processing quality requirements for wheat and other cereal grains / Colin W. Wrigley and Ferenc Bekes

Ch. 12. Grain quality in oil crops / Leonardo Velasco, Begona Perez-Vich and Jose M. Fernandez-Martinez

Ch. 13. malting quality of barley / Roxana Savin, Valeria S. Passarella and Jose Luis Molina-Cano.