Colour preferences of UK garden birds at supplementary seed feeders. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Supplementary feeding of garden birds generally has benefits for both bird populations and human wellbeing. Birds have excellent colour vision, and show preferences for food items of particular colours, but research into colour preferences associated ...
Luke Rothery +2 more
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Progress in Adzuki Bean Seed Coat Colour Studies
Plants, 2023 Seed coat colour is an important quality trait, domestication trait, and morphological marker, and it is closely associated with flavonoid and anthocyanin metabolism pathways.
Zhen Wang +6 more
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Evaluation of diverse soybean genotypes for seed longevity and its association with seed coat colour
Scientific Reports, 2023 Sixty genotypes with different seed coat colour and seed sizes were evaluated for seed longevity under both natural and accelerated ageing over seasons.
Naflath T. V. +2 more
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Fine-mapping of a putative glutathione S-transferase (GST) gene responsible for yellow seed colour in flax (Linum usitatissimum). [PDF]
BMC Res Notes, 2022 Objective The brown seed coat colour of flax ( Linum ustiatissimum ) results from proanthocyanidin synthesis and accumulation. Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs), such as the TT19 protein in Arabidopsis , have been implicated in the transport of ...
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Genomic basis of seed colour in quinoa inferred from variant patterns using extreme gradient boosting. [PDF]
Plant Biotechnol JSummary Quinoa is an agriculturally important crop species originally domesticated in the Andes of central South America. One of its most important phenotypic traits is seed colour.
Sandell FL +4 more
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Effects of Seed Colour and Regulated Temperature on the Germination of Boswellia pirottae Chiov.: An Endemic Gum- and Resin-Bearing Species [PDF]
Plants(1) Background: According to the IUCN, Boswellia pirottae is classified as a vulnerable species. However, knowledge of its seed characteristics and germination behaviour is lacking.
Shiferaw Alem +2 more
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Effects of seed coat colour on the seed quality and initial seedling growth of red clover cultivars (Trifolium pratense) [PDF]
Journal on Processing and Energy in Agriculture, 2017 The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of seed coat colour on the seed quality of four red clover cultivars (germination, dormancy (hard seeds), dead seeds and initial seedling growth (vigour)) produced in Serbia over a period of ...
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International Journal of Agronomy, 2016 The seed coat colour variation of 70 common vetch genotypes were determined by using uniform colour scale (L⁎a⁎b⁎) and their possible correlation with seed yield parameters including the number of pods per plant, the number of seeds per pod, pod ...
Gulgun Yildiz Tiryaki +2 more
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The BELT and phenoSEED platforms: shape and colour phenotyping of seed samples
Plant Methods, 2020 Background Quantitative and qualitative assessment of visual and morphological traits of seed is slow and imprecise with potential for bias to be introduced when gathered with handheld tools.
Keith Halcro +5 more
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Does Scots pine seed colour affect its germination
Seed Science and Technology, 2012 Summary Little is still known about the effect of seed colour on the germination of Scots pine. Using Scots pine seed from the English Midlands, we found that seeds were readily divided into dark and light categories and that light seeds could be further divided into 4 sub-groups.
T. A. Mukassabi +3 more
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