Davis, California, USA
November 22, 2012

The book ‘Seeds. Physiology of Development, Germination and Dormancy’ 3rd Edition, by J. Derek Bewley, Kent J. Bradford, Henk W. M. Hilhorst and Hiro Nonogaki is now available from Springer in softcover printed form, or as an e-Book.

See details on the publisher’s webpage http://www.springer.com/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+%28default%29/book/978-1-4614-4692-7.  

This replaces the previous editions by Bewley and Michael Black.

This new edition has been extensively updated and incorporates much of the progress that has been made over the past two decades in the areas of molecular and cellular biology of development and germination, as well containing new ideas and approaches with respect to dormancy, ecophysiology, desiccation tolerance, storage and longevity.

As with the previous editions, information is placed in the ‘big picture’ context of the seed, and will be an invaluable source of information for students, researchers, teachers and those interested in understanding the complexities of seed biology.