<p>I. Introduction</p><p> </p><p>1. Challenges Facing the Forest Industry in Relation to Seed Dormancy and Seed Quality </p><p> Michael U. Stoehr and Yousry A. El-Kassaby</p><p> </p><p>2. Challenges Facing Seed Banks and Agriculture in Relation to Seed Quality </p><p> M. Verónica Rodríguez, Peter E. Toorop, and Roberto L. Benech-Arnold</p><p> </p><p>II. Breaking Seed Dormancy and Standardizing Seed Dormancy Research </p><p> </p><p>3. Standardizing Seed Dormancy Research </p><p> Henk WM Hilhorst</p><p>4. Eyeing Emergence: Modified Treatments for Terminating Dormancy of Conifer Seeds </p><p> J. Allan Feurtado and Allison R. Kermode</p><p> </p><p>5. Production of Seed Samples for the Effective Molecular Analysis of Dormancy Cycling in Arabidopsis </p><p> Steven Footitt and William E. Finch-Savage</p><p> </p><p>III. Hormone Analyses</p><p> </p><p>6. Approaches to the Identification of ABAR as an Abscisic Acid Receptor </p><p> Xiao-Fang Wang, Qi Xin, Yuan-Yue Shen, and Da-Peng Zhang</p><p> </p><p>7. Profiling of Hormones and Related Metabolites in Seed Dormancy and Germination Studies </p><p> Mitsunori Seo, Yusuke Jikumaru, and Yuji Kamiya</p><p> </p><p>8. In Vitro Assay for ABA 8'-Hydroxylase: Implications for Improved Assays for Cytochrome P450 Enzymes </p><p> Joan E. Krochko and Adrian J. Cutler </p><p> </p><p>9. Functional Analysis of Abscisic Acid 8’-Hydroxylase </p><p> Akira Endo, Mitsuhiro Kimura, Naoto Kawakami, and Eiji Nambara</p><p> </p><p>IV. Gene, RNA, and Protein Analyses</p><p> </p><p>10. Isolation of Genetic Material from Arabidopsis Seeds </p><p> Urszula Piskurewicz and Luis Lopez-Molina</p><p> </p><p>11. Identification and Characterization of Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) that Control Dormancy in Arabidopsis </p><p> Leonie Bentsink and Maarten Koornneef</p><p> </p><p>12. Identification of Seed Dormancy Mutants by Activation Tagging </p><p> Tiehan Zhao, Ying Zeng, and Allison R. Kermode</p><p> </p><p>13. Isolation of MicroRNAs that Regulate Seed Dormancy and Germination</p><p> Arun Kumar M.B., Ruth C. Martin, and Hiro Nonogaki</p><p> </p><p>14. Proteomics and Post-Translational Proteomics of Seed Dormancy and Germination </p><p> Loïc Rajjou, Maya Belghazi, Julie Catusse, Laurent Ogé, Erwann Arc, Béatrice Godin, Kamel Chibani, Sonia Ali-Rachidi, Boris Collet, Philippe Grappin, Marc Jullien, Karine Gallardo, Claudette Job, and Dominique Job</p><p> </p><p>V. Epigenetic Changes Associated with Seed Dormancy </p><p> </p><p>15. Chromatin Dynamics during Seed Dormancy </p><p> Yongxiu Liu, Regina Geyer, Vittoria Brambilla, Kazumi Nakabayashi, and Wim J.J. Soppe</p><p> </p><p>16. Emerging Mass Spectrometry-Based Technologies for Analyses of Chromatin Changes: Analysis of Histones and Histone Modifications </p><p> Brinda Shah, Rachel L. Kozlowski, and Christoph H. Borchers</p><p> </p><p>VI. Spectroscopic and Whole Tissue Analyses</p><p> </p><p>17. In Vivo Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Metabolite Profiling in Plant Seeds </p><p> Victor Terskikh and Allison R. Kermode</p><p> </p><p>18. In Vivo 1H NMR Microimaging during Seed Imbibition, Germination, and Early Growth </p><p> Victor Terskikh, Kerstin Müller, Allison Kermode, and Gerhard Leubner-Metzger</p><p> </p><p>19. Tissue Printing Methods for Localization of RNA and Proteins that Control Seed Dormancy and Germination </p><p> Wioletta E. Pluskota, Kent J. Bradford, and Hiro Nonogaki</p><p> </p><p>VII. Analyses of Reactive Oxygen Species, Protein Damage and Repair </p><p> </p><p>20. Analyses of Reactive Oxygen Species and Antioxidants in Relation to Seed Longevity and Germination </p><p> Christophe Bailly and Ilse Kranner</p><p> </p><p>21. Protein Damage and Repair Controlling Seed Vigor and Longevity </p><p> Laurent Ogé, Caroline Broyart, Boris Collet, Béatrice Godin, Denis Jallet, Gildas Bourdais, Dominique Job, and Philippe Grappin</p><p> </p><p>22. Nitric Oxide Methods in Seed Biology </p><p> Paul C. Bethke, Igor Libourel, Jan Vitecek, and Russell L. Jones</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>VIII. Bioinformatic Resources</p><p> </p><p>23. Seed Bioinformatics </p><p> George W. Bassel, Michael J. Holdsworth, and Nicholas J. Provart</p><p> </p><p>
