As long as the conditions necessary for germination are met, a normal seed should germinate. However, even when the right temperature, moisture, light and some other requisite factors for germination are met, some seeds still refuse to germinate. Consequently, such seeds are said to be dormant.
Seed dormancy is quite important for some reasons. It is one of the adaptive mechanisms exhibited by plants to ensure survival and dispersal within the environment. As a result of dormancy, seeds can escape a period of unfavourable climatic condition that may have result in death if they had germinated
Many ruaral and subsistent farmers do not know this... inorder to escape dormancy, they plant more seeds (esp. Maize) than normal and they get a low yield when all planted seeds grow.. Even, some of them do not undestand prunning factors
Thanks for sharing
Hmmm. You are right. I wonder what our agric extension workers have been doing.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment