RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SEED MOISTURE CONTENT AND ACQUISITION OF IMPERMEABILITY IN NELUMBO NUCIFERA (NELUMBONACEAE)

ABSTRACT Seeds of Nelumbo nucifera do not imbibe water, and thus have physical dormancy (PY).However, a proportion of seeds are permeable to water, and so we hypothesized that variation in moisture content is a reason for the development of both permeable and impermeable seeds.The permeable proportion of seeds present in a lot collected from Suzhou

Abstract Background The use of conventional two-dimensional (2D) culture of the porcine intestinal epithelial cell (IEC) line IPEC-J2 in animal nutrition research has the disadvantage that IEC function is studied under unphysiological conditions, which limits the ability of transferring knowledge to the in vivo-situation.Thus, the aim of the presen