Developed from papers presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Plant Dormancy held in Angers in July 1999. Covers topics including whole plant and organ physiology, water relations and stress, abcisic acid and hormonal control, biochemical and cellular aspects, and genetics and molecular biology.
Genetic and molecular control of dormancy; role of ABA in dormancy; metabolic relations and dormancy; water relations and dormancy; frost resistance; from cell to organ and organism; ecophysical aspects of dormancy.