Contents

**Preface XIII**

#### **Section 1 Seed Development 1**

	- **Section 4 Seed Applications 261**

Michal Petrů and Ivan Mašín

Chapter 6 **Characterization of Genotype by Planting Date Effects on**

Chapter 7 **Impact of Conditions of Water Supply on the Germination of**

Chapter 9 **Free Radicals and Antioxidant System in Seed Biology 167**

Chapter 10 **Anatomical and Chemical Insights into the White Clover**

Alberto Aníbal Galussi and María Esther Moya

Chapter 12 **Seed Transmission of Tobamoviruses: Aspects of Global**

Chapter 13 **Biology of Seed Vigor in the Light of -omics Tools 263**

**Development of Functional Foods 279**

Chapter 14 **The Potential of Garden Cress (Lepidium sativum L.) Seeds for**

Chandra Shekhar Singh and Vinod Kumar Paswan

**Their Systematic Significance 199**

Aviv Dombrovsky and Elisheva Smith

**Disease Distribution 233**

Chapter 11 **Morphological Studies on Seeds of Scrophulariaceae s.l. and**

Balkrishna Ghimire, Go Eun Choi, Hayan Lee, Kweon Heo and Mi Jin

**(Trifolium repens L.) Seed Coat Associated to Water**

**Temperature 103**

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and George Cutts III

**Tomato and Pepper Seeds 123**

Chapter 8 **Metabolic Processes During Seed Germination 141** Awatif S. Ali and Alaaeldin A. Elozeiri

Chen Lubin and Elyashiv Drori

Fadime Eryılmaz Pehlivan

**Section 3 Seed Functional Morphology 185**

**Permeability 187**

Jeong

**Section 4 Seed Applications 261**

Isaac Oludayo Daniel

**Runner-Type Peanut Seed Germination and Vigor Response to**

Timothy L. Grey, Charles Y. Chen, Russell Nuti, Walter Scott Monfort

Yekaterina Shapira, Edward Bormashenko, Gene Whyman, Bat-
