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3. Does light affect seed germination? What are photo dormant seeds?
- Light do affects seed germination but this varies from one plant to another. There are non-photoblastic
plants, they are the plants that do not need sunlight. In contrary of non-photoblastic are photoblastic
which are divided into two more categories, positive and negative. For the first the first one, light is
needed for germination and the latter on the other hand, will not germinate in the presence of sunlight.
Photo dormant seeds either require light or dark conditions to germinate.