Several Silene species of matorral vegetation have been reported to have physiological dormancy (Baskin and Baskin 1998).
This viability loss was confirmed by the patchy pattern of embryos after staining the non-germinated seeds with tetrazolium.
Temperature has been shown to influence the level of dormancy and, while water does not appear to alter it by itself, it can modulate the effect of temperature on dormancy release (Benech-Arnold et al. 2000; Steadman et al. 2003).
All slopes were positive and the point at which the line intersected with the temperature axis gave the base temperature (Tb) for dormancy release for each RH: 1.6 and 2.7℃, for 33% RH and 60% RH, respectively (Table 3)(Mira et al. 2011).