With the coming of globalization, seed companies were allowed to sell seeds for which the companies had certified their safety. In the case of genetically engineered seed, these companies are again seeking self regulation for bio safety.

These giant corporations have begun to control local seed companies through buyouts, joint ventures, and licensing arrangements, leading to seed monopolies.

Your seed flowers eternally in this Revolution of love!

The seed vault is an attempt to insure against the loss of seeds in other genebanks during large scale regional or global crises.

Seeds and roots can also be boiled on a stove.

But we realized that seeds there's been this very serious project happening but that seeds at these major botanical gardens, seeds aren't on show.

Later Sewart (1917) redefined the taxon to refer only to the seeds.

the seeds are used to extract oil, all parts of the tree have medicinal properties,

In 1784, not long after Jussieu had sent seeds to England, some were forwarded to the United States by William Hamilton, a gardener in Philadelphia.

Thomas Heatherwick Building the Seed Cathedral

Seed is also transformed in this way from being a renewable regenerative resource into a non renewable resource and commodity.

Some seeds fall to the muddy bottom and germinate later in the year.

Birds assist in the spread of seeds by ingesting the fruits and berries of plants, then depositing the seeds in their droppings.

that is was time for planting the seeds.

Young plants can be grown from seeds.

In the solid form these seeds can lead to the formation of crystallites or even large single crystals.

Jonathan Drori Why we're storing billions of seeds

The UN has focused on getting seeds and fertilizers into the hands of small farmers.

If your projects are for one year, plant seeds. If they are for 10 years, plant a tree.

Seed scarcity is directly caused by seed monopolies, which have as their ultimate weapon a terminator seed that is engineered for sterility.

Triterpenes and their glycosides (saponins) are found widely throughout the family in the seeds, leaves, wood and bark.

Up to half a pound (200 g) of seeds may be collected from one ant heap.

The cropping of oilseeds takes place annually, thereby reducing long term investment requirements.

By contrast, skeptics hold that the US economy already contains the seeds of its own socio economic decline.

The oilseed crop comprises three essential parts.

Seeds triggering the conversion of vapor are referred to as condensation nuclei, as in the case of water vapor.

The evolution of heterospory and endospory were among the earliest steps in the evolution of seeds of the kind produced by gymnosperms and angiosperms today.

The call for dialogue has planted its seeds in a resistant terrain but the seeds have not died.

Nor does he needs expensive machinery to plant his seeds his plow is drawn by cattle, and he pushes seeds into the ground with his bare hands.

The fundamental forms of ferns followed, to bear spores that foreshadowed seeds.

The seeds are attractive to small finches such as American goldfinch.

Nigeria believes that the time to plant such seeds is now.

The creation of seed monopolies, and with them crushing debts to a new species of moneylender the agents of the seed and chemical companies has taken a high human toll as well.

For the supply of cotton seeds in India has increasingly slipped out of the hands of farmers and into the hands of global seed producers like Monsanto.

But for molecular programming, our question is, how many molecules do we need to put in that seed to get a cell phone?

A pest control technology that fails to control pests might be good for seed corporations that are also agrichemical corporations.

This fruit is frequently a tool which depends upon animals wishing to eat it, and thus scattering the seeds it contains.

We have sown the seeds for two years, and we hope that 2006 will see our first harvest, even if it is a modest one.

Lilianae is a botanical name, in use for a superorder (that is, a rank higher than that of order).

It was also partially responsible for the abolition of serfdom in Russia.

The farmers planting the conventional varieties benefit disproportionately, because they do not have to buy the more expensive GM seeds.

The creation of seed monopolies is based on the deregulation of seed corporations, including giving them oversight over bio safety.

Yes, the seeds are more expensive, but the rise in production offsets the additional cost.

Once it is fully open and dry, the seed can be easily extracted in various ways.

The plants are annual or perennial herbs with edible seeds.