Little flashes where he builds his credibility and maybe plants a seed of doubt.

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Farmers selected plants for seed because they looked and tasted good, without having any idea of what was really different about them.

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The top-10 ranking alone reveals three powerhouse black women, whose success plants the seed of possibility for generations of women to follow: Michelle Obama (No. 1), Oprah Winfrey (No. 3) and Beyonce Knowles (No. 9).

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With plants in place and seed banks built up in the soil, such a greening might continue unassisted.

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Chongqing Holley, a sister company of Kunming's, has set up a research laboratory in Hunan to help it identify high-yielding plants and establish a seed bank.

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It fertilized a roomful of plants, causing their flowers to go to seed and making them unsalable in a market where consumers demand to examine products under magnifying glasses.

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Zeneca's switch-hitting maize plants are now being tested to see how useful they are for hybrid-seed production.

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Believe it or not, the plants or once living food you choose to eat wants also to survive and spread its seed.

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Knapp gave him a list of simple innovations to follow things like deeper plowing and better soil preparation, the use of only the best seed, the liberal application of fertilizer, and more thorough cultivation to remove weeds and aerate the soil around the plants.

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