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 seeds are broad ovoid to globose, 1. 5 – 2 mm long and wide.

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.

Each hip comprises an outer fleshy layer, the hypanthium, which contains 5 – 160 " seeds " ( technically dry single-seeded fruits called achenes ) embedded in a matrix of fine, but stiff, hairs.

The fruit is a siliqua 5 – 20 mm long, containing 20 – 30 seeds.

Over a 20-year period, for example, forests composed of loblolly pine and shortleaf pine produced from 0 to nearly 5 million sound pine seeds per hectare.

The seeds usually weigh between 2. 5 and 14 grams, with a typical mean of 8 grams.

The fruit is a round, dry capsule 5 – 9 mm diameter, containing several glossy brown seeds shaped like an apple pip, 4 – 7 mm long.

In commercial planting, seeds are planted 45 cm ( 1. 5 ft ) apart and 2. 5 cm ( 1 in ) deep.

The fruit is a hairy pod that grows in clusters of three to five, each pod is 3 – 8 cm long ( 1 – 3 in ) and usually contains two to four ( rarely more ) seeds 5 – 11 mm in diameter.

* Soybean, mature seeds, sprouts: 5. 74 % of the protein is lysine ( sprouting decreases the lysine content ).

* Navy Bean, mature seeds, raw: 5. 73 % of the protein is lysine.

On the other hand, chestnuts behave similarly to seeds in that they produce very little ethylene, and their respiration rate is low, varying between 5 and 20 mg /( kg · h ) depending on the temperature.

As a dietary supplement, guarana is an effective stimulant: its seeds contain about twice the concentration of caffeine found in coffee beans ( about 2 – 4. 5 % caffeine in guarana seeds compared to 1 – 2 % for coffee beans ).

However, a Catholic Relief Services ( CRS ) rapid assessment of seed supply and demand for the 5 most common food security crops found that the Haitians had enough seed and recommended that imported seeds should be introduced only on a small scale.

At about the same time, the state agriculture minister barred the company from selling any Bt cotton seeds in the state, because Monsanto refused a request by the state government to provide a compensation package of about Rs 4. 5 crore ( about 1 Million US $) to indebted farmers in some districts, and because the government blamed Monsanto's Bt seeds for crop failures.

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.

The seed cones are globose, 5 to 7 cm diameter, and mature 18 to 20 months after pollination ; the seed cones disintegrate at maturity to release winged seeds, which are then dispersed by the wind.

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