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Serotiny

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-005757

An ecological adaptation in which some seeds are retained in long-closed cones within the plant canopy for a year or more and are released only in response to an environmental trigger, e.g., wildfires.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-005757
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectPlant Production, Gardening
ReferencesNAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (CC BY 4.0)
See alsoPlant characteristics; Seed cones; Plant adaptation
TranslationsSpanish: serotina
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-005757",
  "term": "Serotiny",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "An ecological adaptation in which some seeds are retained in long-closed cones within the plant canopy for a year or more and are released only in response to an environmental trigger, e.g., wildfires.",
  "subject": "Plant Production, Gardening",
  "see_also": [
    "plant characteristics",
    "seed cones",
    "plant adaptation"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "serotina"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/serotiny/"
}

Record 5,674 of 6,798 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.