... fire germination 447Original article The influence of seed age on germinative response to the effects of fire in Pinus pinaster, Pinus radiata and Eucalyptus globulusOtilia Reyes* and Mercedes ... with the smallest seeds, and is the most sensitive to seed age and the effects of fire. Of the two species of pine studied,P. pinaster is the least sensitive to seed age and the ef-fects of fire, ... applied to P. pinaster, P. radiata and E. globulus according to the age of the seeds. Although the trajectory of P. pinaster is not totallylinear, there are no important variations in the germina-tion...