Seeds

thumb|350px| Micrograph|Photomicrograph of various seeds

thumb|250px|Sunflower seedlings, three days after germination

thumb|Simon Bening, Labors of the Months: September, from a Flemish [[Book of hours (Bruges)]] thumb|Men sowing seed by hand in the 1940s thumb|Manual sowing machine Sowing is the process of planting seeds. An area that has had seeds planted in it will be described as a sowed or sown area.

movement or transport of seeds away from the parent plant

edible seeds of Salvia hispanica and S. columbariae

backup seed storage

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Afzelia africana seeds bearing [[elaiosomes|right|thumb]] thumb|right|alt=Chelidonium majus diaspores consisting of hard-coated seeds and attached elaiosomes.|Chelidonium majus diaspores consisting of hard-coated seeds and attached elaiosomes

Bioprospecting (also known as biodiversity prospecting) is the exploration of natural sources for small molecules, macromolecules and biochemical and genetic information that could be developed into commercially valuable products for the agricultural, aquaculture, bioremediation, cosmetics, nanotechnology, or pharmaceutical industries. In the pharmaceutical industry, for example, almost one third of all small-molecule drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) between 1981 and 2014 were either natural products or compounds derived from natural products.

man-made ball of clay with seeds inside

thumb|upright=1.35|Diana and Actaeon (Titian)|Diana and Actaeon by [[Titian has a full provenance covering its passage through several owners and four countries since it was painted for Philip II of Spain in the 1550s.]]

viable seed present in the soil

rights granted to the breeder of a new variety of plant that give the breeder exclusive control

2001 treaty on plant genetic resources

adaptive mechanism in plants

sowing seeds through aerial machinery

Plant seeds intolerant of drying or cold

practice of saving plant reproductive material

extract derived from grapefruit seeds

produced by cross-pollinated plants

seed which may be preserved via drying or freezing

annual catalogue of seeds available for exchanging formerly published by various botanical institutions

usually characterized by a combination of the following traits in contrast to the conventional varieties

species of plant

refers usually to a place where seeds for forest culture are produced

method of seeding that involves scattering seed, by hand or mechanically, over a relatively large area

Trademark for genetically modified crop seeds

Event where gardeners meet to exchange seeds