Researchers find sucrose breakdown is key to melon seed germination in cold conditions

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Jul 29, 2024, 9:20 am125 pts
A research team has found that cold-tolerant melon seeds (THY) maintained higher neutral invertase activity at low temperatures, enabling sustained sucrose decomposition into glucose, which supports seed germination. This contrasts with cold-sensitive IVF521 seeds, which had higher nutrient content but were…

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