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SUBMITTER: Song K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5935463 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Song Kahye K Chang Shyr-Shea SS Lee Sang Joon SJ
Frontiers in life science 20170213 1
One of the primary purposes of pine cones is the protection and distant dispersal of pine seeds. Pine cones open and release their embedded seeds on dry and windy days for long-distance dispersal. In this study, how the pine seed attach to/ detach from the pine cone scale for efficient seed dispersal were experimentally investigated by using X-ray micro-imaging technique. The cone and seeds adhere to one another in the presence of water, which could be explained by the surface tension and the co ...[more]