Watch cress seeds absorb water to catalyze the metabolic activity involved in germination
Watch cress seeds absorb water to catalyze the metabolic activity involved in germination
Time-lapse photography of cress seeds germinating in water
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Time-lapse photography of cress seeds germinating in water
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Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Telemann Trio/Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Time-lapse video of the epigeal (cotyledons emerge aboveground) germination of a dwarf French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris ‘Borlotto Firetongue'), filmed over two weeks.
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Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Paul Pitman/Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Time-lapse video of the hypogeal (cotyledons remain belowground) germination of runner beans (Phaseolus coccineus ‘Enorma'), filmed over a three-week period.
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Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Time-lapse video showing wheat germination and growth; the underground sequence was filmed over five days and the appearance of leaves over six days.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Video presentation describing the differences in seed storage between angiosperms and gymnosperms.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Three pea seeds germinating. The roots grow in the direction of gravity, a phenomenon called gravitropism
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Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Aaron Prillaman/Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Time-lapse video, filmed over a three-week period, of oat (Avena sativa) germination and growth.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, MainzOverview of garden cress: its cultivation and culinary and medicinal uses.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Learn about the unusual seed dispersal of the squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium).
Transcript
NARRATOR: When a seed is ready to germinate, it takes in water, and metabolic activity begins. Food stores, which consist mostly of starch, are mobilized by enzymes produced by the embryo.