International Society for Seed Science
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The ISSS is committed to fostering and promoting research, education and communication in #SeedScience 🫘🌱🧪.
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Want to connect with researchers from all over the world working on #SeedScience? Check out our Starter Pack and help us grow our online community! #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
If you are a seed scientist and want to join the starter pack, please leave a comment below! go.bsky.app/H38GoMy
If you are a seed scientist and want to join the starter pack, please leave a comment below! go.bsky.app/H38GoMy
Our official journal, Seed Science Research, is offering a 15% discount on Article Processing Charges (APC) to ISSS Members! 🧪 #PlantSci
For more info on this, and other options for publishing in our full #OpenAccess journal, please visit the following link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
For more info on this, and other options for publishing in our full #OpenAccess journal, please visit the following link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our official journal, Seed Science Research, is offering a 15% discount on Article Processing Charges (APC) to ISSS Members! 🧪 #PlantSci
For more info on this, and other options for publishing in our full #OpenAccess journal, please visit the following link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
For more info on this, and other options for publishing in our full #OpenAccess journal, please visit the following link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🌱 We’re thrilled to announce that Dr Si-Chong Chen has been elected as President-Elect of the International Society for Seed Science (ISSS)! 🎉
Her vision is to make ISSS an outward-facing, inclusive hub connecting rigorous seed science with global capacity building and EDI (1/3) #SeedScience 🧪
Her vision is to make ISSS an outward-facing, inclusive hub connecting rigorous seed science with global capacity building and EDI (1/3) #SeedScience 🧪
October 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🌱 We’re thrilled to announce that Dr Si-Chong Chen has been elected as President-Elect of the International Society for Seed Science (ISSS)! 🎉
Her vision is to make ISSS an outward-facing, inclusive hub connecting rigorous seed science with global capacity building and EDI (1/3) #SeedScience 🧪
Her vision is to make ISSS an outward-facing, inclusive hub connecting rigorous seed science with global capacity building and EDI (1/3) #SeedScience 🧪
After #ISSS2025, we have seen quite a lot of movement among seed scientists here on Bluesky. If you want to make part of our Starter Pack, please leave a comment below! #SeedScience #PlantScience #Botany 🧪
Please help us grow our community of seed scientists on this social media! 🌱🫘
Please help us grow our community of seed scientists on this social media! 🌱🫘
Want to connect with researchers from all over the world working on #SeedScience? Check out our Starter Pack and help us grow our online community! #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
If you are a seed scientist and want to join the starter pack, please leave a comment below! go.bsky.app/H38GoMy
If you are a seed scientist and want to join the starter pack, please leave a comment below! go.bsky.app/H38GoMy
October 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
After #ISSS2025, we have seen quite a lot of movement among seed scientists here on Bluesky. If you want to make part of our Starter Pack, please leave a comment below! #SeedScience #PlantScience #Botany 🧪
Please help us grow our community of seed scientists on this social media! 🌱🫘
Please help us grow our community of seed scientists on this social media! 🌱🫘
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‘Best job in the natural world’: seed collector enlisted as modern-day Darwin to document the world’s plants www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Best job in the natural world’: seed collector enlisted as modern-day Darwin to document the world’s plants
Newly appointed expedition botanist Matthew Jeffery feels ‘daunted’ but inspired by his unique globetrotting role collecting wild species
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August 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
‘Best job in the natural world’: seed collector enlisted as modern-day Darwin to document the world’s plants www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In black grass, one of the most important weeds in Central European cereal fields, winter cold during vegetative growth boosts seed dormancy in the offspring. A study in #SeedScienceResearch links this to epigenetic changes, influencing weed emergence patterns in crops.
Vernalization enforces seed dormancy in the agricultural weed Alopecurus myosuroides (Huds.) | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core
Vernalization enforces seed dormancy in the agricultural weed Alopecurus myosuroides (Huds.)
doi.org
August 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
In black grass, one of the most important weeds in Central European cereal fields, winter cold during vegetative growth boosts seed dormancy in the offspring. A study in #SeedScienceResearch links this to epigenetic changes, influencing weed emergence patterns in crops.
This year's ISSS Conference brings you not only fascinating talks, but also four exciting workshops to deepen your knowledge in cutting-edge aspects of #SeedScience: from statistical modelling to lab protocols! 🫘🌱 Check the following link for the full programme 👉 : isss2025.com.au
August 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This year's ISSS Conference brings you not only fascinating talks, but also four exciting workshops to deepen your knowledge in cutting-edge aspects of #SeedScience: from statistical modelling to lab protocols! 🫘🌱 Check the following link for the full programme 👉 : isss2025.com.au
@annbot.bsky.social is preparing a Special Issue entitled "Exploring seed development, structure and physiology", edited by @gabyplantbio.bsky.social and Chunhui Zhang 🫘🌱 #SeedScience #PlantScience #Botany
Submissions' Deadline: June 30, 2026.
Submissions' Deadline: June 30, 2026.
🌱Annals of Botany invites submissions to the new Special Issue "Exploring seed development, structure and physiology", edited by AoB editors Gabriela Auge and Chunhui Zhang. (1/4)
#seeds #plantscience #specialissue
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#seeds #plantscience #specialissue
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August 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
@annbot.bsky.social is preparing a Special Issue entitled "Exploring seed development, structure and physiology", edited by @gabyplantbio.bsky.social and Chunhui Zhang 🫘🌱 #SeedScience #PlantScience #Botany
Submissions' Deadline: June 30, 2026.
Submissions' Deadline: June 30, 2026.
The full programme for this year’s ISSS Conference is now available! Take a look at the exciting line-up of talks and workshops planned for what promises to be one of the year’s top events in hashtag#SeedScience. More information on the following link: lnkd.in/evaVjrRg
July 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The full programme for this year’s ISSS Conference is now available! Take a look at the exciting line-up of talks and workshops planned for what promises to be one of the year’s top events in hashtag#SeedScience. More information on the following link: lnkd.in/evaVjrRg
Myrtaceae seeds show diverse dormancy and germination traits shaped by fruit type, habitat, and fire. A review in #SeedScienceResearch highlights their ecological strategies and conservation challenges in a changing climate. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Seed dormancy and germination in Myrtaceae: a palaeohistory, tribe, life cycle and geographical distribution perspective | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core
Seed dormancy and germination in Myrtaceae: a palaeohistory, tribe, life cycle and geographical distribution perspective
doi.org
May 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Myrtaceae seeds show diverse dormancy and germination traits shaped by fruit type, habitat, and fire. A review in #SeedScienceResearch highlights their ecological strategies and conservation challenges in a changing climate. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
A recent #SeedScienceResearch study shows that biopriming oilseed rape seeds with Pseudomonas fluorescens boosts germination uniformity but reduces bacterial viability over time. #PlantScience #Botany 🧪
Seed biopriming and long-term air-dry storage effects on Pseudomonas fluorescens viability and Brassica napus germination | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core
Seed biopriming and long-term air-dry storage effects on Pseudomonas fluorescens viability and Brassica napus germination
doi.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A recent #SeedScienceResearch study shows that biopriming oilseed rape seeds with Pseudomonas fluorescens boosts germination uniformity but reduces bacterial viability over time. #PlantScience #Botany 🧪
Leonurus cardiaca seeds show type 2 non-deep physiological dormancy. A study in #SeedScienceResearch reveals they germinate best at ≥25/15°C, with cold stratification boosting germination at cooler temps #SeedScience #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Seed germination ecology of the medicinal plant motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core
Seed germination ecology of the medicinal plant motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca)
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May 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Leonurus cardiaca seeds show type 2 non-deep physiological dormancy. A study in #SeedScienceResearch reveals they germinate best at ≥25/15°C, with cold stratification boosting germination at cooler temps #SeedScience #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
In a recent #SeedScienceResearch study, Escobar and colleagues show that Carajasia cangae seeds form a transient soil seed bank. Moreover, its dormancy is lifted after 3 months in the dry season, delaying germination until the rainy season. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Seed persistence and germination strategies of Carajasia cangae (Rubiaceae): an endemic forb from the Amazon ironstone outcrop | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core
Seed persistence and germination strategies of Carajasia cangae (Rubiaceae): an endemic forb from the Amazon ironstone outcrop
doi.org
May 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
In a recent #SeedScienceResearch study, Escobar and colleagues show that Carajasia cangae seeds form a transient soil seed bank. Moreover, its dormancy is lifted after 3 months in the dry season, delaying germination until the rainy season. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Single-cell technologies are unlocking how gene activity shifts across seed tissues during development and germination. A new review in #SeedScienceResearch explores these tools and their potential to transform seed biology #PlantScience #Botany 🧪
Deciphering seed development and germination in the single-cell era | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core
Deciphering seed development and germination in the single-cell era
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May 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Single-cell technologies are unlocking how gene activity shifts across seed tissues during development and germination. A new review in #SeedScienceResearch explores these tools and their potential to transform seed biology #PlantScience #Botany 🧪
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🗞️Check out my popular article in "The Bulletin: The Newsletter of the @ntbgarden.bsky.social"
🌱I discuss a multi-strategy approach to conserving Hawaiian seeds by highlighting 5 different groups of species; #Metrosideros, #Pritchardia, #Hibiscus, #Melicope, #Campanulaceae.
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🌱I discuss a multi-strategy approach to conserving Hawaiian seeds by highlighting 5 different groups of species; #Metrosideros, #Pritchardia, #Hibiscus, #Melicope, #Campanulaceae.
ntbg.org/stories/savi...
Exploring NTBG's Multi-Strategy Approach to Saving Hawaiian Seeds - National Tropical Botanical Garden
By Dr. Dustin Wolkis, Scientific Curator of Seed Conservation One of NTBG’s core activities is […]
ntbg.org
April 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM
🗞️Check out my popular article in "The Bulletin: The Newsletter of the @ntbgarden.bsky.social"
🌱I discuss a multi-strategy approach to conserving Hawaiian seeds by highlighting 5 different groups of species; #Metrosideros, #Pritchardia, #Hibiscus, #Melicope, #Campanulaceae.
ntbg.org/stories/savi...
🌱I discuss a multi-strategy approach to conserving Hawaiian seeds by highlighting 5 different groups of species; #Metrosideros, #Pritchardia, #Hibiscus, #Melicope, #Campanulaceae.
ntbg.org/stories/savi...
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Seed banking is crucial to safeguarding threatened plants from extinction, but seeds can be surprisingly fussy, as I learned in my latest for @knowablemag.bsky.social ☘️🌱🌳🌼🌺
Featuring @naomibot.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social #plantconservation #botanicalgardens
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Featuring @naomibot.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social #plantconservation #botanicalgardens
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The surprisingly tricky art of seed banking
To safeguard threatened plants, science must unravel the hidden biology of often-persnickety seeds as they age, sleep and awaken
knowablemagazine.org
April 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Seed banking is crucial to safeguarding threatened plants from extinction, but seeds can be surprisingly fussy, as I learned in my latest for @knowablemag.bsky.social ☘️🌱🌳🌼🌺
Featuring @naomibot.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social #plantconservation #botanicalgardens
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
Featuring @naomibot.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social #plantconservation #botanicalgardens
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
How do seeds survive freezing? According to a new study in #SeedScienceResearch, energy metabolism plays a key role. In lettuce, MDM2 regulates ATP synthesis and freezing tolerance, with its knockdown enhancing seed survival under cold conditions #PlantScience 🧪
The oxidative phosphorylation is regulated by ubiquitination under slow-cooling treatment in hydrated lettuce (Lactuca sativa) seeds | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core
The oxidative phosphorylation is regulated by ubiquitination under slow-cooling treatment in hydrated lettuce (Lactuca sativa) seeds
doi.org
April 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
How do seeds survive freezing? According to a new study in #SeedScienceResearch, energy metabolism plays a key role. In lettuce, MDM2 regulates ATP synthesis and freezing tolerance, with its knockdown enhancing seed survival under cold conditions #PlantScience 🧪
Seed exudates shape plant microbiomes, but what about peptides? A new Methods Paper in #SeedScienceResearch identifies peptides in bean exudates, revealing their potential role in seedling development and opening new avenues for enhancing seed quality and crop productivity.
Development of an extraction method for the identification of peptides in the spermosphere of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core
Development of an extraction method for the identification of peptides in the spermosphere of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
doi.org
April 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Seed exudates shape plant microbiomes, but what about peptides? A new Methods Paper in #SeedScienceResearch identifies peptides in bean exudates, revealing their potential role in seedling development and opening new avenues for enhancing seed quality and crop productivity.
Does deer dung help seeds grow? A new Estudy in #SeedScienceResearch finds that Korean water deer feces have no significant effect on seed germination or early growth. However, more research is needed to know the long-term impacts on endozoochorous seed dispersal #Botany 🧪
Effects of Korean water deer (Hydropotes inermis argyropus) feces on seed germination and early seedling growth: insights into their contribution to seed dispersal | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core
Effects of Korean water deer (Hydropotes inermis argyropus) feces on seed germination and early seedling growth: insights into their contribution to seed dispersal
doi.org
April 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Does deer dung help seeds grow? A new Estudy in #SeedScienceResearch finds that Korean water deer feces have no significant effect on seed germination or early growth. However, more research is needed to know the long-term impacts on endozoochorous seed dispersal #Botany 🧪
Seed mucilage protects against digestion and supports germination during bird dispersal. A recent study in #SeedScienceResearch shows that removing mucilage drastically reduces seed survival through pigeons, highlighting its crucial role in endozoochory #Botany 🧪
Removal of the mucilage reduces intact seed passage through the digestive system of birds | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core
Removal of the mucilage reduces intact seed passage through the digestive system of birds - Volume 34 Issue 4
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April 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Seed mucilage protects against digestion and supports germination during bird dispersal. A recent study in #SeedScienceResearch shows that removing mucilage drastically reduces seed survival through pigeons, highlighting its crucial role in endozoochory #Botany 🧪
Tomato seeds show diverse germination responses to heat, from thermotolerance to deep thermodormancy. A study in #SeedScienceResearch finds that genetics and pre- and post-harvest conditions shape these responses, revealing cryptic variation and transgenerational plasticity. #PlantScience 🧪
Pre- and post-harvest temperatures influence the germination response to supra-optimal temperature in contrasting tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) MAGIC genotypes | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core
Pre- and post-harvest temperatures influence the germination response to supra-optimal temperature in contrasting tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) MAGIC genotypes - Volume 34 Issue 4
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April 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Tomato seeds show diverse germination responses to heat, from thermotolerance to deep thermodormancy. A study in #SeedScienceResearch finds that genetics and pre- and post-harvest conditions shape these responses, revealing cryptic variation and transgenerational plasticity. #PlantScience 🧪
Probit analysis is key to modelling seed viability loss over time. A new Methods paper in #SeedScienceResearch led by @dustinwolkis.bsky.social provides R code for fitting survival curves and assessing seed longevity under different storage conditions! #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Seed longevity: analysing post-storage germination data in R to fit the viability equation | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core
Seed longevity: analysing post-storage germination data in R to fit the viability equation
doi.org
April 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Probit analysis is key to modelling seed viability loss over time. A new Methods paper in #SeedScienceResearch led by @dustinwolkis.bsky.social provides R code for fitting survival curves and assessing seed longevity under different storage conditions! #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Why do some orchids germinate easily while others fail? A study in #SeedScienceResearch finds that germination relates to morphology, habitat and mycoheterotrophy. Species from shaded habitats tend to have lower embryo-to-seed ratios and require fungal symbiosis to germinate. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Orchid embryo-to-seed (E:S) ratio as an indicator of germination behaviour and its ecological implications | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core
Orchid embryo-to-seed (E:S) ratio as an indicator of germination behaviour and its ecological implications - Volume 34 Issue 4
doi.org
April 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Why do some orchids germinate easily while others fail? A study in #SeedScienceResearch finds that germination relates to morphology, habitat and mycoheterotrophy. Species from shaded habitats tend to have lower embryo-to-seed ratios and require fungal symbiosis to germinate. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
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Our research published in @newphyt.bsky.social titled "Unravelling the dynamics of seed‐stored mRNAs during seed priming" (nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) explores how hydropriming affects mRNA dynamics, enhancing germination but reducing longevity. Thanks to all my co-authors!
Unravelling the dynamics of seed‐stored mRNAs during seed priming
Seed priming is a pre-sowing treatment that enables more efficient and uniform seed germination; however, it negatively affects seed longevity. In this work, the mRNA dynamics underlying a hydroprim...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Our research published in @newphyt.bsky.social titled "Unravelling the dynamics of seed‐stored mRNAs during seed priming" (nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) explores how hydropriming affects mRNA dynamics, enhancing germination but reducing longevity. Thanks to all my co-authors!
Rubiaceae seeds show diverse dormancy and germination traits across climates! Carol and Jerry Baskin's new #SeedScienceResearch review links seed traits to life form, biogeography, and phylogeny, revealing how dormancy patterns shift with latitude.
Diversity of embryos and seed dormancy in Rubiaceae: a taxonomic/phylogenetic and biogeographic perspective | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core
Diversity of embryos and seed dormancy in Rubiaceae: a taxonomic/phylogenetic and biogeographic perspective - Volume 34 Issue 4
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March 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Rubiaceae seeds show diverse dormancy and germination traits across climates! Carol and Jerry Baskin's new #SeedScienceResearch review links seed traits to life form, biogeography, and phylogeny, revealing how dormancy patterns shift with latitude.
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our new paper shows that sowing old-fashioned low diversity seed mixtures over twenty years ago to restore grasslands, seems to have worked reasonably well. Until you realise that the surrounding permanent grasslands are partly degraded too. 1/2
Our new paper shows that sowing old-fashioned low diversity seed mixtures over twenty years ago to restore grasslands, seems to have worked reasonably well. Until you realise that the surrounding permanent grasslands are partly degraded too. 1/2
Biodiversity on old permanent versus restored grassland is driven by small‐scale land‐use intensity and habitat connectivity
Central European grasslands with low land-use intensity potentially harbor high biodiversity, but have decreased in extent due to land-use intensification. We evaluated the success of a 30-year grass....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our new paper shows that sowing old-fashioned low diversity seed mixtures over twenty years ago to restore grasslands, seems to have worked reasonably well. Until you realise that the surrounding permanent grasslands are partly degraded too. 1/2
Our new paper shows that sowing old-fashioned low diversity seed mixtures over twenty years ago to restore grasslands, seems to have worked reasonably well. Until you realise that the surrounding permanent grasslands are partly degraded too. 1/2