Fig. 3.

Inhibition of dormancy breaking and chlorophyll accumulation under anaesthetics. (A) Inhibition of cress seed germination under anaesthetic treatment. After 24 h, all anaesthetics inhibited germination. Seed germination recovered completely 24 h after removal of anaesthetics. (B) Anaesthetic treatment attenuates chlorophyll accumulation. Chlorophyll was extracted from the leaves of cress seedlings germinated after 24 h of anaesthetic treatment. The values are averaged from five independent treatments. The error bars represent the standard deviation (***P < 0.001; **P < 0.01)