“…Therefore, they maintain high metabolic activity during all maturation period (Bonjovani and Barbedo, 2019; and would switch directly to a germinative metabolism (Caccere et al, 2013). These seeds have a wide range of limits of tolerance to both desiccation and freezing after dispersal (Lamarca and Barbedo, 2015;Lamarca et al, 2016;Baruth et al, 2020), but frequently they need to be maintained at high levels of water content, resulting in high metabolic activity of both the seeds themselves and the microrganisms associated to them (Parisi et al, 2016;Parisi et al, 2019;Lamarca et al, 2020;Lamarca and Barbedo, 2021), which is a challenge for ex situ conservation (Berjak and Pammenter, 2014;Barbedo et al, 2013;Gasparin et al, 2020;Amorim et al, 2021;Srivastava et al, 2022).…”