Most plant seeds are dispersed in a dry, mature state. If these seeds are non-dormant and the environmental conditions are favourable, they will pass through the complex process of germination. In this review, recent progress made with state-of-the-art techniques including genome-wide gene expression analyses that provided deeper insight into the early phase of seed germination, which includes ...

  In oil industry, spontaneous imbibition is an important phenomenon in recovery from fractured reservoirs which can be defined as spontaneous uptake of a wetting fluid into a porous solid. Spontaneous imbibition involves both cocurrent and countercurrent flows. When a matrix block is partially covered by water, oil recovery is dominated by cocurrent imbibition i.e. the production of non wettin...

Abstract The imbibition process can be considered one of the most important mechanisms during production naturally fractured formations. In this process, hydrocarbon in matrix blocks surrounded by water-filled fractures described a recovery curve. Different equations have been proposed to describe imbibition. This work presents detailed analysis performance two- and three-parameter models inclu...