Information outputs for ‘Climate and Reproductive Biology’
Project “Interactions between Climate and Plant Species Function and Distribution for
Recalcitrant Seeded Taxa”
Black M, Pritchard HW. (2002) Desiccation and survival in plants: drying without dying. CAB
International, Wallingford, UK.
Pritchard HW, Daws M., Fletche, BJ, Gamen, CS, Msanga HP, Omondi W. (2004) Ecological
correlates of seed desiccation sensitivity in tropical African dryland trees. American Journal of
Botany 91: 863–870.
Daws MI, Garwood NC, Pritchard HW. (2005) Traits of recalcitrant seeds in a semi-deciduous
tropical forest in Panama: some ecological implications. Functional Ecology 19: 874–885.
Daws MI, Garwood NC, Pritchard, HW (2006) Predicting desiccation sensitivity in seedsof woody
species: a probabilistic model based on two seed traits and 104 species. Annals of botany 97, 667674.
Project “Jumping Seed Storage Types: Effect of Developmental Heat Sum at
Continental Scales on the Seed Desiccation Tolerance Trait”
Daws MI, Cleland H, Chmielarz P, Gorian F, Leprince O, Mullins CE, Thanos CA, Vandvik V,
Pritchard HW. (2005) Variable desiccation tolerance in Acer pseudoplatanus seeds in relation to
developmental conditions: a case of phenotypic recalcitrance? Functional Plant Biology in press.
Daws MI, Lydall E, Chmielarz P, Leprince O, Matthews S, Thanos CA., Pritchard HW. (2004)
Developmental heat sum influences recalcitrant seed traits in Aesculus hippocastanum L. across
Europe. New Phytologist 162: 157-166.
Daws MI, Pritchard HW (2008) The development and limits of freezing tolerance in Acer
pseudoplatanus fruits across Europe is dependent on provenance. Cryoletters 29, 189-198 & 527.
Hamilton KN, Ashmore SE, Pritchard HW (2009). The thermal analysis and cryopreservation of
seeds of Australian wild Citrus species (Rukaceae): Citrus australasica, C. oradora and C.
garraways. Cryoletters 30.
Project “Seed Responses to Climate Change and Environmental Extremes”
Daws, M.I., Burslem, D.F.R.P., Crabtree, L.M., Kirkman, P., Mullins, C.E. and Dalling, J.W. (2002)
Differences in seed germination responses may promote coexistence of four sympatric Piper
species. Functional Ecology 16: 258-267.
Brown, N.A.C., Van Staden, J., Daws, M.I. and Johnson, T. (2003a) Patterns in the seed
germination response to smoke in plants from the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. South
African Journal of Botany 69: 514-525.
Brown, N.A.C., Van Staden, J., Johnson, T. and Daws, M.I. (2003b) A summary of patterns in the
seed germination response to smoke in plants from the Cape Floral Region. In: Seed
Conservation: Turning Science into Practice. Smith et al. (eds). RBG Kew, pp. 563-574.
Daws MI, Davies J, Pritchard HW, Brown AC, van Standen J. (2007) Butenolide from plant-derived
smoke enhances germination and seedling growth of arable weed species. Plant Growth
Regulation 51, 73-82.
Daws MI, Pritchard HW, van Standen J (2007). Butenolide from plant-derived smoke functions as
a strigolactone analogue: evidence from parasitic weed seed germination. South African Journal of
Botany 74, 116-120.