Here, we artificially stored seeds of three Fabaceae species for different periods and tested for storage-mediated dormancy alleviation. Despite the fact that natural field conditions differ from ...

Introduction Much headway was made in the genetic improvement of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L. Fabales, Fabaceae) during the 1970s and 1980s (Abreu et al., 1994; Matos et al., 2007), but due ...