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Alterations in Plant Secondary Metabolism by Seed Priming

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Priming and Pretreatment of Seeds and Seedlings

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Seed technologists are extensively using seed priming with water alone or with some additives to improve germination potential and stress tolerance in seed. Priming is also very important to seed bank managers who require conserving germplasm of important crops ex situ. Taking care of the plant species, physiology, and seed morphology, different priming techniques and methods can be applied. All these treatments activate the pre-germinative seed metabolism. Alteration in the secondary metabolism starts from the beginning of water uptake along with seed-repairing process. The seed repair process includes induction of antioxidant system and activation of DNA repair pathways. Both these mechanisms are essential for the integrity of seed genome, successful germination, and seedling establishment. With the beginning of the water uptake, reactive oxygen species (ROS) start to accumulate in the seeds that can cause severe damage to seed proteins and lipids. However, to cope up with these hazardous ROS molecules, seeds have strong antioxidant system involving a number of enzymatic and nonenzymatic antioxidants. These antioxidant molecules play an active role in scavenging the injurious oxidative molecules, thus making the seed germination a successful event. This book chapter will provide an overview of priming and its impact on the alteration in production of different secondary metabolites which are produced in response to priming process.

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  1. College of Agriculture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Layyah, Pakistan

    Qasim Ali & Abdul Rehman

  2. Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    Sana Ashraf

  3. Department of Agronomy, University College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

    Muhammad Kamran

  4. Department of Agronomy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan

    Shakeel Ahmad

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Ali, Q., Ashraf, S., Kamran, M., Rehman, A., Ahmad, S. (2019). Alterations in Plant Secondary Metabolism by Seed Priming. In: Hasanuzzaman, M., Fotopoulos, V. (eds) Priming and Pretreatment of Seeds and Seedlings. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8625-1_7

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