The seed bank at Kew, the largest of its kind in the world, currently stores 11% (around 31, 000 specimens) of the world's plant species.
China is the major hold-out on accepting altered seed, but sales growth in the rest of the world has been tremendous.
Absent that basis for capital markets, the billions of dollars of capital showered on the world's poor by international agencies is like seed falling on barren ground.
Federer and Nadal will next head to Doha for the opening tournament of the ATP Tour schedule, while world No. 8 Soderling will be top seed for the Chennai Open in India.
In its brief Monday, the Center for Food Safety said the current intellectual property environment related to transgenic crops has spurred a substantial privatization and concentration of the world's seed supply that has resulted in 10 multinational corporations holding approximately 65 percent of commercial seed for major crops.
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At the World Tennis Tournament in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, Argentinian third seed Juan Martin Del Potro -- the 2009 U.S. Open champion -- beat Slovakian Karol Beck 6-4 7-5 to reach the last eight.
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Number 24 seed Daniela Hantuchova advanced with a 6-3 6-4 win against Safina, who was the tournament's top seed in 2009 but has slipped to 50th in the world after missing almost three months of the season with a back injury.
Yet large companies such as Giumarra, one of the world's biggest agricultural seed companies, are relatively few.
Federer's route to a second success in Estoril has been made easier by the withdrawal of Croatian second seed Ivan Ljubicic, who has pulled out due to the stomach strain that ended the world No. 14's campaign in Rome.
And now, four years after Reynolds planted the first illegal seed, a grassroots guerrilla gardening movement has sprouted up around him, with thousands of revolutionaries throughout the world who are armed and ready with rakes and shovels to turn areas of urban decay into springy patches of peonies and sunflowers.
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In October 1999, PCOM merged with the Yazoo Cotton Oil Mill and the new entity, the Plains Yazoo Cotton Oil Mill (PYCO), markets about one-third of the cotton oil produced in the United States.21 The Plains Cooperative Mill in Lubbock is the world's largest cottonseed oil mill, receiving about 1, 200 tons of seed per day from the region's gins, and churning out the makings for peanut butter, soap, and throw pillows.
And in the developed world, farmers now have access to an explosion of information on the internet, from seed companies, from input suppliers, and others which has helped to offset the shrinking funding for extension services.
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Klaasen, a 100-1 shot at the start of the tournament, had already beaten top seed Mervyn King on his way to the final and becomes the youngest ever world champion.
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Swedish ninth seed Robin Soderling kept alive his hopes of snatching a place at the ATP World Tour Finals in London by defeating Croatia's Ivo Karlovic 6-4 7-6.
The Croatian world No. 11 will next play fifth seed Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus, who beat 2007 champion Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3 6-4.
Spanish fourth seed David Ferrer also went through to the second week as he ended the run of former world number one Lleyton Hewitt of Australia, 7-6 4-6 6-3 6-0.
World number five Murray tore the 32nd seed to shreds with eight breaks of serve in his 6-1 6-1 6-2 triumph.
American Andy Roddick advanced with a 6-3 6-4 6-1 success over Dutch world No. 53 Robin Haase, and the 15th seed will next play fellow former world No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt of Australia.
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Tenth seed Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark also failed in her bid to reach the second round, as the former world number one let slip a 5-2 lead against 48th-ranked Bojana Jovanovski in a third set tiebreak.
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They were joined in the second round by 13th seed Samantha Stosur of Australia, Russian 19th seed Nadia Petrova and former world No. 1 and 2008 finalist Ana Ivanovic, seeded 20th.
The Serbian ninth seed cruised past 19-year-old world No. 114 Eugenie Bouchard of Canada 6-2 6-1 for the 500th victory of her career.
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Top seed Caroline Wozniacki will face either Clijsters or Li in the quarterfinals if she can get the better of Serbia's former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic .
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