Organic agriculture, recognized as a more sustainable agricultural system, strongly depends on the use of highly resilient genotypes. Seed resilience, with increased tolerance to germination that provide vigorous seedlings under environmental stresses, currently represents one of the most important agronomical traits. Seed germination involves the activation of several metabolic pathways, including cellular res...
Increasing human population and climatic and edaphic changes impose needs to develop new cultivars with seeds that have grea-ter plasticity for environmental constraints and higher germinati-on rates. Improving seed vigor remains a primary objective of the agricultural industry and the seed/breeding companies that sup-port it. Phenotyping tools to assist breeding programs for pheno-typing seeds for resilience a...