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n.c.iowa | Well not saying your professor is wrong, but that thought would be along the lines of thinking that corn is a warm blooded organism, which it is not, obviously.
We rate everything in gdu's, so in essence we are saying that it takes so much heat to get to the various stages of growth, which provided by sun, not the seed itself.
But the seed in addition to using it's energy stores to develop a shoot, elongate it, then emerge, has to maintain it's own integrity and would assume it uses some energy for that also. So I suppose one could theorize that in a colder emerging environment it's a race to get the shoot out of the ground before the seed runs out of gas maintaining itself.
I think that most academia is on the page there is a cellular change when the cool moisture is imbibed. | |
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