SEED SCIENCE RESEARCH

VOLUME 9, NUMBER 2, JUNE 1999

Personal View

Leopold, A.C. Learning from seeds ............................................................................................................111

Physiology & Biochemistry

Downie, B., Gurusinghe, S. & Bradford, KJ. Internal anatomy of individual tomato seeds:
Relationship to abscisic acid and germination physiology ................................................................................... 117

; Roth-Bejerano, N., Sedee,N.J.A.,vanderMctilcn, R.M. & Wang, M. The role of abscisic;
acid in germination of light-sensitive and light-insensitive lettuce seeds .................................................... 129

Dussert, S„ Chabrillange,N., Engelmann,R&Hamon, S. Quantitative estimation of seed
desiccation sensitivity using a quantal response model: application to nine species of the
genus Coffea L.....................................................................................................................................................135

Ecology
Edwards, G.R. & Crawley,M.J.'t Effects of disturbance and rabbit grazing on seedling
recruitmeneof six mesic grassland species............................................................................................................... 145

Ekstam, B. & Forseby, A." Germination responseofPhramifes australis and latifolia to
diumal fluctuations intempemture...............................................................................................................................157

Ekstam,B., Johannesson, R. & Milberg, P. The effect of light and number of diumal.
temperature fluctuations on germination ofPhragmites flMsfrflflS...............................................................................165

Kihachiro Kikuzawa & Hiromasa Koyama. Scaling of soil water absorption by seeds: An
experiment using seed analogues .............................................................................................................................. 171

Book Reviews ..........................................................................................................................................................179