The province's two main tribes, the cattle-herding Hema and the seed-sowing Lendus, used to bicker intermittently.
Hirshberg's evenings are often spent packing and labeling seeds, and she also runs volunteer seed-packing sessions.
Food-testing mobile laboratories and mobile workshops have been seen, as well as large containers with seed-processing equipment.
The results, reported in this week's Nature, suggest naturally occurring rays enhance seed-formation rates by a factor of ten.
Today, Mr. Brock grows vegetables for seed-saving plots in an effort to help resuscitate heirloom varieties that have fallen out of favor.
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Look for seed-like droppings, immature stages of insects (such as larvae), egg sacks (which can resemble small bean bags) and anything moving.
Candy watched as Marjorie attempted to work the needle through the material in the seed-size stitches required for the seam she was sewing.
Kimetric, which has been seed-funded and is pilot-testing its product in Argentina, isn't aiming to identify customers by name or by transaction history.
That will soon result in more than 1, 000 seed-funded companies disappearing after not raising new capital, according to a report from CB Insights.
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Their portfolio is an eclectic collection of mostly Internet bets (see table), 75% of them seed-stage investments in companies that had received no venture funding.
Their portfolio is an eclectic collection of mostly Internet bets (see table), 75% of them seed-stage investments in companies that have received no venture funding.
In other green design news, artist Michael Jantzen has released designs for a solar-powered seed-sowing machine that would plant flowers at sites of environmental destruction.
Historically, that role was the domain of venture capital firms scouring the countryside, analyzing business plans, and committing the seed-level investment capital needed to launch a new venture.
They recognized that such programs were the technological seed-corn for the future, the means by which American security would be safeguarded and our interests protected down the road.
So the news that, last month, a group of American and Russian researchers received a patent for an apomictic maize plant has probably caused a few flutters in seed-company boardrooms.
Azarenka beat Venus' conqueror Angelique Kerber, battling to a 6-4 7-5 win over the German seventh seed -- whose 48 match wins this year is the most on the WTA Tour.
Indeed, my agency Elasticity works with a number of agriculture-based clients such as seed-maker Monsanto, crop-and-commodities predictor Lanworth, Intervet Schering-Plough and SFP, to name a few.
To their surprise, they discovered that the seed-formation rates for sulphuric acid and ammonia are between a tenth and a thousandth of those needed to account for the cloud seeding actually seen in the atmosphere.
The top seed - still yet to drop a set in the tournament - will face Marat Safin or Feliciano Lopez in Friday's semi-final, and neither will hold much fear after a supreme display against Ancic.
Matrix Partners India recently announced a new focus on funding a handful of seed-stage companies in the Internet and mobile sectors, and US venture capitalists are also looking to break in, including seed specialist 500 Startups.
About the dependence or independence of third-world countries on the few big, extremely powerful GM suppliers and their annual package of GM seeds and GM seed-specific pesticides (let's not forget about them) - not a single word.
The Spanish fourth seed -- beaten in the semifinals at Indian Wells by Djokovic's conqueror and eventual champion Ivan Ljubicic -- will next play Argentine wildcard David Nalbandian, who overcame Serbian 30th seed Viktor Troicki 6-3 4-6 6-4.
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Would the search for short-term profits prompt a U.S. companies to sell the United States' technological "seed-corn, " and in so doing make it likely that this country would shortly become a net importer, instead of an exporter, of derivative products?
But the sixth seed -- who had won just one clay-court match this year prior to facing Cirstea -- suddenly found her form in devastating fashion, winning 11 of the next 12 games to run out a comfortable 6-3 6-1 winner.
Ivanovic, who occupied top spot after winning the French Open in 2008 but is now ranked 16th, recorded a 6-3 6-2 against the Danish fourth seed -- who lost her No. 1 ranking following Victoria Azarenka's triumph at January's Australian Open.
Susan Cohen is a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who offers this clarification: Accelerators are organizations that provide cohorts of selected nascent ventures seed-investment, usually in exchange for equity, and limited-duration educational programming, including extensive mentorship and structured educational components.
So Steiner did what the entrepreneurs he often wrote about did: he went out and got funding from seed-funding VC firm YCombinator for a technology he believes can bring customers back to the stores and he signed up two grocery store chains to test out his idea.
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And if we use their biomass directly and not just the seed - all we use are the seed of the corn - we use their biomass directly to make energy and to run the plant that makes the energy, we can have biofuels that are immensely better, that can give us 80 or 90 percent reductions in greenhouse gases compared to gasoline.
Most of the time, the guerrilla gardeners' gardens are gardens of peace unless, of course, landowners decide they don't want them there, which, with the exception of an angry bar owner in east London, usually never happens -- a spokesperson for London's Metropolitan Police Service said that while he had never heard of the seed-sowing bandits, any criminal activity -- even illicit gardening -- is discouraged and would be subject to prosecution.
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