Seed imbibition
= Seed imbibition
Initial <seed> <water> uptake, permitting renewed <metabolism>. Hydration does not prove <seed viability> or imply the idealized hydraulic law for <capillary imbibition>.<Seed dormancy and the control of germination by William E. Finch-Savage and Gerhard Leubner-Metzger>[Seed dormancy and the control of germination, §II.1, p. 502: initial uptake and subsequent embryo expansion]{ref}