What is seed dormancy?

What are advantage of seed dormancy?

Describe methods of breaking seed dormancy.

Write two methods of breaking seed dormancy.

List three causes of seed dormancy.

Prechilling treatment to break seed dormancy is:

Differntiate between quiescence and dormancy with reference to seed germination.

Seeds of some plants germinate immediately after shedding from the plants while in order plants they require a period of rest before germination. The later phenomena is called as dormancy. Give the reasons for seed dormancy and some methods to break it: