Cover Caption: Time for Emerging
Journal of Integrative Plant Biology · 2014
The emergences of radicle and coleoptile during seed germination represent cumulated eff ects of underlying genetic networks. Studies in the past have identified genes regulating seed germination and seedling growth without distinguishing these two steps. Using a dynamic evaluation method, in this issue Xie et al (pp. 749–759) identified diff erent QTLs for seed germination and for seedling establishment.