Miami earned that seed this year based on what they did on the floor this year, despite the lack of basketball tradition.
In the flower beds, coneflowers such as echinacea and rudbeckia turn into food as the blooms go to seed this time of year.
Williams said last month that she considered herself the real number one as Safina has yet to win a Grand Slam title, but she backed the Russian - who has never been past the third round at Wimbledon - as the top seed this fortnight.
This week Nadal will continue his rehabilitation in South America, where he will be top seed at this week's Brazil Open in Sao Paulo.
Defending champion Vera Zvonareva of Russia is top seed for this week's other WTA Tour event, the Pattaya Open in Thailand.
The firm has 70 portfolio companies, and has been very active, intending to do 100 seed deals this year, in addition to more traditional Series A, B or C investments.
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Alford, who had guided New Mexico to three NCAA tournament appearances in his six years there, led the Lobos to a 29-6 record and No. 3 seed in this year's tournament.
"I had a great week of practice and I was ready to go, " said the big-serving Isner, who will be the second seed at this week's U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship.
While keen to put expectations in perspective, D1 Oils, in partnership with oil company BP, has announced plans to plant 50, 000 hectares of so-called "elite seed" this year, capable of producing 2.7 tonnes of oil per hectare.
Bain and his partners would provide seed money for this new enterprise, and they would be among the investors as well.
" It also became seed money: "This year we plan to award 15 scholarships.
But there should be frustration that the Knicks are in this low-seed, uphill position.
"They're fighting for the 2 seed with Indiana, so this is a big game for them, " Heat forward Shane Battier said.
Charleston Southern came in the tournament's top seed and would have hosted this final under the Big South's old home-court format.
In the other half, second seed Roger Federer will play qualifiers in this first two matches, with home hope Jo-Wilfried Tsonga a likely quarterfinal opponent and fourth seed David Ferrer of Spain in the semifinals.
Perhaps Brigham Young or Mississippi State, each a No. 8 seed in 2008, will be this year's Villanova.
The justices delivered a narrow ruling that applied only to seed patents and the particulars of this case, but it could have long-term implications for other self-replicating innovative technologies.
Sequoia Capital, Felicis Ventures, SV Angel and Kapor Capital this past Spring made a seed investment in Piazza.
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.
But she was unable to show the form that this week knocked out ninth seed Victoria Azarenka and Olympic champion Elena Dementieva as she was crushed 6-4 6-2 by world No. 26 Martinez-Sanchez.
This is ignorance gone to seed.
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Another contributing factor to this crunch is the ratio of seed stage funding and Series A investments.
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Spain's David Ferrer was a 7-5 6-4 winner over Serbian teenager Novak Djokovic, the sixth seed and winner of the Miami Masters earlier this month.
The No. 9 seed has already pulled off two major upsets, but this would be the biggest stunner yet.
Mr Peiris said the government was looking for seed money, which would mean relatively modest sums at this stage.
And this is despite the higher cost of the seed and the strict conditions that companies often attach to their contracts of sale.
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Kim has been investing in this sector for some time, believing that seed firms will become more in demand as startups need less cash to get started.
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And for the last few years, the Canadian authorities have left him alone--until this summer, when they suddenly raided his seed business at the behest of the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
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