However, some genes correlated with seed dormancy and germination have been identified from Arabidopsis mutants, which would be helpful in understanding the mechanisms of seed germination and dormancy.

At present, domestic and foreign research on dormancy and germination of Paeonia lactiflora seed was found only in few literature, and most of them focued on Paeonia lactiflora\'s radicle dormancy, research on embryo dormancy are few and don\'t go deep into it, yet lack the system research that takes the radicle dormancy and the embryo dormancy as a whole.