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Conditions favouring hard seededness as a dispersal and predator escape strategy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-09-16)1. The water-impermeable seed coat of ‘hard’ seeds is commonly considered a dormancy trait. Seed smell is, however, strongly correlated with seed water content, and hard seeds are therefore olfactionally cryptic ... -
The crypsis hypothesis explained: a reply to Jayasuriya et al. (2015)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-08-18)In imbibing seeds, resumption of metabolism leads to the unavoidable release of volatile by-products that are perceived as cues by rodent seed predators. The crypsis hypothesis proposes that the primary function of a ...