{"id":2287,"date":"2019-10-22T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T11:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobreed.com\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2019-11-04T11:36:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T11:36:54","slug":"a-combination-of-approaches-evidenced-seed-storage-behaviour-in-the-miracle-berry-synsepalum-dulcificum-schumach-thonn-daniell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobreed.org\/?p=2287","title":{"rendered":"Regeneration ability and seedling growth in the miracle plant Synsepalum dulcificum (Schumach. &#038; Thonn.) Daniell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tchokponhou\u00e9, D., E. Achigan-Dako, S. N\u2019Danikou, A. Houd\u00e9gb\u00e9, C. Agossou, F. Assogba-Komlan, et al. 2018. Regeneration ability and seedling growth in the miracle plant <em>Synsepalum dulcificum <\/em>(Schumach. &amp; Thonn.) Daniell. <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pubhort.org\/fruits\/73\/1\/2\/index.htm\"><strong>Fruits<\/strong><\/a> <strong>73: 13-21.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Conservation and management of recalcitrant-seeded species are a major concern, particularly for socio-economically important species such as <em>Synsepalum dulcificum <\/em>in which seed viability and storage behavior are not sufficiently documented. In order to improve the seed propagation management of <em>S. dulcificum<\/em>, we investigated the effects of seed provenance, short-term storage, culture medium, and pulp removal on viability, germinability, germination speed, and seedlings growth. A first experiment following a complete randomized block design consisted of two treatments (intact fruit or depulped fruit). In a second experiment we used a split-split-plot design with 16 treatments of a factorial combination of 2 provenances (Hou\u00e9yogb\u00e9 and Toffo), 2 culture media (soil and sawdust) and 4 storage times (0, 1, 2, and 7 days). The seed viability remained high (85%) on the second day of storage at ambient condition and decreased to 0% when seeds were stored for 7 days. It was affected by the type of culture medium. All factors, except pulp removal, affected germinability and germination speed with percentages ranging from 44 to 99% at two months after sowing. Seedling growth was extremely slow and was affected by the seed provenance, substrate, and storage time. The time of storage is a major limiting factor for <em>S. dulcificum<\/em> seed viability whereas successive use of sawdust and soil for germination and seedling growth, respectively, is recommended to improve seedling production in the nursery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tchokponhou\u00e9, D., E. Achigan-Dako, S. N\u2019Danikou, A. Houd\u00e9gb\u00e9, C. Agossou, F. Assogba-Komlan, et al. 2018. Regeneration ability and seedling growth in the miracle plant Synsepalum dulcificum (Schumach. &amp; Thonn.) Daniell. Fruits 73: 13-21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","category-22","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobreed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobreed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobreed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobreed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobreed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mobreed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"https:\/\/mobreed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobreed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobreed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobreed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobreed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}