Abstract
WHEN applied to germination, ‘dormancy’ and ‘maturity’ are not precise terms, and their meaning therefore depends on the particular test which is used. The data in my communication1 relate to tests in which the conditions were optimal, in all respects, for the germination of barley grains. Complete germination was obtained immediately after the drying treatment, and must necessarily be attributed to the removal of inherent dormancy in the grains which would riot otherwise germinate. There is the further significant fact that this response was not only obtained during storage after harvest, but also when the grains were ripening, and at the harvest-ripe stage.
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