Ants carry away the seeds so better be sure that there are no ant hills nearby.

Sprouted grains and seeds are used in salads and dishes such as chop suey.

Blanched peanuts, as prepared for making peanut butter or for eating as nuts, are roasted seeds whose seedcoats have been rubbed off.

More than half of the sorghum and barley seeds we produce and most of the byproducts of the milling of cereals and the crushing of oilseeds are fed to livestock.

More than 200 million tons of seeds and seed products are fed to livestock annually in the United States.

The efficiency with which animals convert grains and forages to meat has risen steadily in the United States since the 1930's and has paralleled the increased feeding of the cake and meal that are a byproduct when seeds are processed for oil.

Chief among the seed crops grown primarily for industrial uses are the oil-bearing seeds -- flax, castor, tung ( nuts from the China wood-oil tree ), perilla ( from an Oriental mint ), and oiticica ( from a Brazilian tree ).

Solid fats from the seeds of the mahua tree, the shea tree, and the coconut palm are used to make candles in tropical countries.

Coconuts, the fruit of the coconut palm, have the largest of all known seeds and are grown in South Pacific islands as a crop for domestic and export markets.

Bead tree seeds are the necklaces of South Pacific islanders and the eyes of Buddha dolls in Cuba.

Still another group of seeds ( sometimes tiny, dry, seed-bearing fruits ) provide distinctive flavors and odors to foods, although the nutrients they supply are quite negligible.

Beverages are made from seeds the world over.

Many desert annuals are therophytes, because their seed-to-seed life cycle is only weeks and they spend most of the year as seeds to survive dry conditions.

The flowers are usually arranged in inflorescences, and the mature seeds lack endosperm.

An Oligocene ( 34 – 23 Mya ) pollen is known for Asteraceae and Goodeniaceae, and seeds from Oligocene and Miocene ( 23 – 5. 3 Mya ) are known for Menyanthaceae and Campanulaceae respectively.

The plentiful seeds of the umbers, likewise, are sometimes used in cuisine, as with, coriander ( Coriandrum sativum ), fennel ( Foeniculum vulgare ), cumin ( Cuminum cyminum ), and caraway ( Carum carvi ).

These trees differ from the birches ( Betula, the other genus in the family ) in that the female catkins are woody and do not disintegrate at maturity, opening to release the seeds in a similar manner to many conifer cones.

# Its seeds are a good source of protein.

Although the Turun Sanomat Building and Paimio Sanatorium are comparatively pure modernist works, they too carried the seeds of his questioning of such an orthodox modernist approach and a move to a more daring, synthetic attitude.

Research grade agar is used extensively in plant biology as it is supplemented with a nutrient and vitamin mixture that allows for seedling germination in Petri dishes under sterile conditions ( given that the seeds are sterilized as well ).

It opens by two valves, which are the modified carpels, leaving the seeds attached to a framework made up of the placenta and tissue from the junction between the valves ( replum ).

Gymnosperms are seed-producing plants which have open seeds, such as conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophyta.

Angiosperms are seed-producing plants that produce flowers, having enclosed seeds.

Bean () is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of the family Fabaceae ( alternately Leguminosae ) some of which are used for human food or animal feed.

The farm value of seeds produced in this country for all purposes, including the cereals, is nearly 10 billion dollars a year.

The seeds are viable for three to 10 years ..

The fruit is a spiny capsule 4 – 10 cm long and 2 – 6 cm broad, splitting open when ripe to release the numerous seeds.

One example of its work is a US $ 10. 2 million, € 7. 5 billion scheme to distribute and multiply quality seeds in Haiti, which has significantly increased food production, thereby providing cheaper food and boosting farmers ' incomes.

The seeds are large and heavy, 10 mm long and 8 mm broad, with a short rounded wing 12 mm long ; they may be bird or mammal dispersed as the wing is too small to be effective for wind dispersal.

These seeds are separated from the flesh, dried for 10 – 15 days and used as an acidic agent for chutney and curry preparation.

Each fruit can have 10 to 12 flat light brown seeds about in width and enclosed in gelatinous aril.

Salmon sent the Norin 10 seeds to Orville Vogel.

Importantly they also distribute seeds to other key locations around the world, do germination tests on each species every 10 years, and other important research.

The flowers are inconspicuous, yellow-green, 3 – 4 mm diameter, maturing into a small, hard, dry, lumpy fruit cluster 5 – 10 mm across containing several seeds.

Firs can be distinguished from other members of the pine family by their needle-like leaves, attached to the twig by a base that resembles a small suction cup ; and by erect, cylindrical cones 5 – 25 cm ( 2 – 10 in ) long that disintegrate at maturity to release the winged seeds.

There are typically 10 – 30 seeds on each seed catkin.

The seeds require a cooking time of 10 to 40 minutes, depending on the variety — shorter for small varieties with the husk removed, such as the common red lentil — and have a distinctive, earthy flavor.

The seeds are winged, in pairs, small ( 5 – 10 mm diameter ), the wing about 3 – 5 cm long.

The fruit is a double samara with two winged seeds ; the seeds are disc-shaped, strongly flattened, 10 – 15 mm across and 3 mm thick.

Some, such as hemp ( 60 %) and the common margarine oils corn ( 60 %), cottonseed ( 50 %) and sunflower ( 50 %), have large amounts, but most temperate oil seeds have over 10 % LA.

Laboratory tests have suggested maximum seed scattering distances of 2. 1 and 3. 2 yd ( 1. 9 and 2. 9 m ) at wind speeds of 6. 8 and 10. 2 mph ( 10. 9 and 16. 4 km / h ) respectively ( affected by plant height ) suggests that it was more than wind that spread these groundsel seeds throughout the world.

* Germination time-lapse ~ 1 minuite HD video of mung bean seeds germinating over 10 days.

Moreover, these seeds cannot resist the effects of drying or temperatures less than 10 ° C ; thus, they cannot be stored for long periods like orthodox seeds because they can lose their viability.

It managed to capture and condense enough ground vapor to bring to life naturally buried seeds underneath it, with green area of about 10 % of the carpet area.