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Science 21 April 1967:
Vol. 156. no. 3773, pp. 398 - 399
DOI: 10.1126/science.156.3773.398
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Seed Dormancy: Breaking by Uncouplers and Inhibitors of Oxidative Phosphorylation

L. A. T. Ballard 1 and A. E. Grant Lipp 1

1 Dvision of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia

When 2,4-dinitrophenol and carbon dioxide were applied together to dormant seeds of Trifolium subterraneum L. (subterranean clover), 2,4-dinitrophenol did not disturb the breaking of dormancy which carbon dioxide usually induces in legume seeds. On the contrary, on its own, it promoted germination in a substantial proportion of seeds; a similar effect was produced by other uncouplers or inhibitors of oxidative phosphorylation.


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