Tumour dormancy has been recognized as a clinical phenomenon in numerous types of cancer for many years. Clinicians and experimental biologists have used the term dormancy loosely, to describe the ...

In autumn, as nights grow longer and temperatures plunge, many trees and plants go dormant. What does this mean aside from gorgeous fall foliage? Dormancy is a defense mechanism that allows plants to ...

Lawns naturally go dormant as we move into the fall and early winter. In Florida, all of our permanent lawn grasses begin to fade and slow down in growth during fall. They are supposed to do so. Some ...

Scientists have found that seed dormancy (a property that prevents germination under non-favorable conditions) was a feature already present in the first seeds, 360 million years ago. An international ...