The path to dormancy induction, maintenance, and release is a continuum and has been the topic of thousands of research articles to date. It would be an impossible task and indeed presumptuous of us to imagine that we could review all the research conducted on dormancy in the past century in this article. The multiple and complex nature of the dormancy phenomenon would require not one review bu...

Annual growth cycles of perennial horticultural and forest woody plant species temperate boreal regions can be divided into two phases, namely the dormancy phases. During phase, vegetative reproductive meristems undergo to withstand subzero winter temperatures. The dormant state organs defined classically as a non-growing latent state, where no visible occurs in meristem containing plants struc...

Dormancy of buds and seeds is a well known and common phenomenon in the plant world. It is of interest because it has not yet become understandable. The dormant tissue has available to it by definition all of the environmental conditions of temperature, water supply, nutrition, etc., required for growth. The dormant tissue is alive, it respires, and in some cases grows very slowly in size (10)....