Contribuição da barreira tegumentar para a germinação de sementes de Stylosanthes humilis H.B.K

• Autor(a) principal: Chaves, Izabel de Souza
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4328
• topic: Dormência; Estilosante; Fitorreguladores; Sementes; Tegumento; Towsville stylo; Bioregulators; Seeds; Coat; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::BOTANICA::FISIOLOGIA VEGETAL

Seeds of Towsville stylo (Stylosanthes humilis HBK), a tropical annual forage legume, exhibit a seed coat barrier to water and solutions imposed mainly by its macrosclereids, elongated palisade cells. Some growth regulator solutions are capable to penetrate the seed coat stimulating embryo growth, wich causes then coat rupture, leading to germination. When seeds are scarificed mechanically with sandpaper following treatments with regulators for 48 or 72 h, dormancy is partially broken, showing that regulators had penetrated through the seed coat. The growth regulators which mostly permeate seed coat thus promoting germination were: 1-amino-1- cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid, thiourea and the combination 2-chloroethylphosphonic acid (CEPA) plus benzyladenine (BA). CEPA and BA, isolatedily, were also able to break dormancy, depending on the seed lot studied. Seed coat became highly permeable to water and growth regulators after mechanical (with sandpaper) and chemical (with sulfuric acid) scarification.