Because seed ( DNA ) degrades with time, the seeds need to be periodically replanted and fresh seeds collected for another round of long-term storage.

Closely tied in with this storage behavior is the bird's remarkable long-term spatial memory ; they are able to relocate caches of seeds with remarkable accuracy, even nine months later, and even when the cache sites are buried under up to a meter ( 3 ft ) of snow.

The seeds are dispersed by wind, mud, water, and possibly also by ants ; they do not show significant long-term dormancy, most germinating soon after dispersal and only a few lasting up to four years in the soil seed bank.

Traditionally used for contraception, papaya seeds had no apparent ill effects on the testes or other organs of rats tested with a long-term treatment.

As Jacques Revel notes, the success of the Annales School, especially its use of social structures as explanatory forces contained the seeds of its own downfall, for there is " no longer any implicit consensus on which to base the unity of the social, identified with the real.

At first, Prester John was imagined to reside in India ; tales of the Nestorian Christians ' evangelistic success there and of Thomas the Apostle's subcontinental travels as documented in works like the Acts of Thomas probably provided the first seeds of the legend.

According to Grove, " Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction ," explaining that " Success breeds complacency.

The average weight of 1000 seeds is 0. 21 gram ( 2, 200, 000 seeds per pound ) and experienced a 100 % germination success before drying and storage and an 87 % germination success after drying and 3 years of cool dry storage.

The intense bioturbation of salt marsh sediments from this crab's burrowing activity has been shown to dramatically reduce the success of Spartina alterniflora and Suaeda maritima seed germination and established seedling survival, either by burial or exposure of seeds, or uprooting or burial of established seedlings.

Under the influence of these men, Arminius studied with success and had seeds planted that would begin to develop into a theology that would later compete with the dominant Reformed theology of John Calvin.

Since the chance of a seed's success in occupying the patch depends upon its genotype, and a parent cannot anticipate which genotype is most successful, each parent will send many seeds, creating competition between siblings.

The name “ Seed ” was chosen to represent the company ’ s plan for growth and sharing seeds of success.

He began his conquest by establishing his headquarters at Salamiyah and began riding towards north-western Africa, which at the time was under Aghlabid rule, following the propagandist success of his chief da ' i, Abu ' Abdullah Al-Husayn Al-Shi ' i. Al-Shi ' i, along with laying claim to being the precursor to the Mahdi, was instrumental in sowing the seeds of sedition among the Berber tribes of North Africa, specifically the Kutamah tribe.

Napoleon's initial success sowed the seeds for his downfall.

( 1998 ) Recaching of Jeffery pine ( pinus jefferyi ) seeds by tallow pine chipmunks ( Tamias amoenus ): potential effects on plant reproductive success.

Without the use of plant hormones, the seeds have a 24 % sprouting success rate.

Although Nuytsia seeds germinate readily and seedlings are easy to grow for a year or two cultivation of the species to maturity is regarded as difficult, with little success outside of its native habitat.

The camphor content of the leaf litter helps prevent other plants from germinating successfully, helping to ensure the camphor's success against any potentially competing vegetation, and the seeds are attractive to birds and pass intact through the digestive system, ensuring rapid distribution.

The coaching of shinty which he started in the High School would sow the seeds of Skye's greatest success, the Camanachd Cup win of 1990.

Its aggressive self-seeding ( seeds can remain viable as long as 30 years ) and the success of its creeping roots ( they can be as long as 3-4 m ) cause it to be a persistent weed and have led to its classification as a noxious weed.

Mitchell produced The Black List in 2008, with director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, a documentary film about race, culture and the seeds of success.

Gums were extracted from quince, psyllium ( fleawort ), flax, and locust ( carob ) seeds in ancient times.

There were the seeds ( spermata ) or miniatures of wheat and flesh and gold in the primitive mixture ; but these parts, of like nature with their wholes ( the homoiomereiai of Aristotle ), had to be eliminated from the complex mass before they could receive a definite name and character.

The seeds of life which continued floating in the air were carried down with the rains and produced vegetation.

All of the areas ruled by the Aztecs were ordered to pay a tax, leading those that grew the beans to offer cacao seeds as tribute.

The first native seeds were planted with the publication of The Canadian Unitarian in Ottawa from 1940 to 1946, a small newsletter distributed with the newsletters of Canadian churches.

The primordial fluctuations gravitationally attracted gas and dark matter to the denser areas, and thus the seeds that would later become galaxies were formed.

The ancients had a variety of ideas about heredity: Theophrastus proposed that male flowers caused female flowers to ripen ; Hippocrates speculated that " seeds " were produced by various body parts and transmitted to offspring at the time of conception ; and Aristotle thought that male and female semen mixed at conception.

In 1993 the company demerged its pharmaceutical bioscience businesses: pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, specialities, seeds and biological products were all transferred into a new and independent company called Zeneca Group ( which subsequently merged with Astra AB to form AstraZeneca PLC ).

Yet another myth speaks of the three founding deities of Jeju Island, who were to be wed to the three princesses of Tamna ; the deities brought seeds of five grains which were the first seeds planted, which in turn became the first instance of farming.

Cultivation spread from China in the early 20th century, when seeds were introduced to New Zealand by Mary Isabel Fraser, the principal of Wanganui Girls ' College, who had been visiting mission schools in Yichang, China.

The seeds were planted in 1906 by a Wanganui nurseryman, Alexander Allison, with the vines first fruiting in 1910.

The Roman pound and ounce were both defined in terms of different sized collections of carob seeds, and consequently, the two mass units were related to each other through a simple fraction.

The dominant land plant species of the time were gymnosperms, which are vascular, cone-bearing, non-flowering plants such as conifers that produce seeds without a coating.

However, this did not happen because the seeds of the primitive structure of science were never formed.

The seeds of the New Left were planted in the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union.

Spengler's vision of the cyclical nature of civilization and the contemporaneity of the end of the Western European cycle led William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg to look for the seeds of the next cycle in the communities of which they were a part.

When the French revolution created strong nation states, the criminal gangs moved to other poorly controlled regions like the Balkans and Southern Italy, where the seeds were sown for the Sicilian Mafia-the lynchpin of organised crime in the New World.

However, seeds, such as grains and beans, were rarely eaten and never in large quantities on a daily basis.

The mainstays of the passenger pigeon's diet were beechnuts, acorns, chestnuts, seeds, and berries found in the forests.

When agriculture was first developed, simple hand-held digging sticks and hoes were used in highly fertile areas, such as the banks of the Nile where the annual flood rejuvenates the soil, to create drills ( furrows ) to plant seeds in.