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91Seed testing — is performed in dedicated laboratories by trained and usually certified analysts. The tests are designed to evaluate the quality of the seed lot being sold. Several tests are done:*Germination test: Reports the percentage of seed that germinated …
92Seed contamination — is the mixing of seeds used for agriculture with other seeds which are not desirable or soil (which may carry seeds). An example would be mixing corn seed with weed seed. These contaminant seeds can be either common weeds or other crop seeds.In… …
93Seed Savers Exchange — Seed Savers Exchange, or SSE, is a non profit based in Decorah, Iowa, that preserves heirloom plant varieties through regeneration, distribution and seed exchange. The mission of SSE is to preserve the world’s diverse but endangered garden… …
94Seed Records — 1972 1981 = Seed Records was a record label started by Paul Clark in 1972. The label ran until circa 1981, when he started Minstrel s Voyage Music. Seed Records was distributed by Word Records and ABC Records. Seed Records 1999 present A London… …
95Seed hibernation — is different from seed dormancy. While seed dormancy can be defined as a seed not germinating when conditions, e.g. light, water/nutrient availability or the presence of activating substances like smoke, are favourable , hibernation is the… …
96Seed paper — is a type of handmade paper that includes any number of different plant seeds. Seed paper is attractive, versatile, and easily recyclable. One of the novel features of seed paper is that it is a medium for viable plant seeds. The seeds themselves …
97Seed bombing — Seed bombing, also known as Seed Grenades is a technique of introducing vegetation to arid soils or otherwise inhospitable terrains. A seed bomb is a compressed clod of soil containing live vegetation that may be thrown or dropped onto a terrain… …
98Seed ball — Seed balls (土団子,土だんご,Tsuchi Dango {Earth Dumpling}) consist of mixing the seed for next season s crop with clay, compost, and sometimes manure then formed into small balls. Much less seed is used than in conventional growing, resulting in fewer… …
99seed corn — UK US (also seedcorn, seed corn) noun [U or S] ► something or someone that is important as the starting point for future development: seed corn for/of sth »These small operations are the seed corn of what STP hopes will become large enterprises.… …
100seed|ling — «SEED lihng», noun, adjective. –n. 1. a young plant grown from a seed. 2. a young tree less than three feet high. –adj. 1. developed or raised from seed. 2. like a small seed; existing in a rudimentary state. 3. (of oysters) hatched from seed …
