This text is intended for plant physiologists, molecular biologists, biochemists, biotechnologists, geneticists, horticulturalists, agromonomists and botanists, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

It integrates advances in the diverse and rapidly-expanding field of seed science, from ecological and demographic aspects of seed production, dispersal and germination, to the molecular biology of seed development.

The book offers a broad, multidisciplinary approach that covers both theoretical and applied knowledge.