James Geere Dickson, The Value of Certain Nutritive Elements in the Development of the Oat Plant, American Journal of Botany, Vol. 5, No. 6 (Jun., 1918), pp. 301-324 ...

Germination is a crucial stage in the life of a plant as it will leave the stage of seed resistant to various environmental constraints (climatic conditions, absence of nutritive elements, etc ...