Sentence examples for destructive seed from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kornacki may be right that an important and destructive seed was planted that day, one that has since flowered into a foul and poisonous plant.

Because many soils harbour fungi destructive to sprouting seed and young seedlings, soil that is used for germinating seed commonly is sterilized by heat or chemicals.

Not all offspring were measured; this is due both to the destructive procedure of seed opening and the early developmental stages of some offspring (see Methods).

Non-destructive assessment of seed composition was carried out by Near InfraRed spectroscopy (NIRS) using the NIRFlex N-500 (BUCHI UK Ltd ,Oldham, UK) for approximately 200 500 seeds per line, with a 15 × 45 mm glass vial in the NIRFlex Solids Vial add-on.

They can be destructive plant pests, attacking seeds, plant roots, and underground stems.

But a centralised state where millions of people have little or no contact with those making decisions will carry with it the seeds of destructive behaviour.

Pinus breeding programmes yield high numbers of seeds, but a non-destructive method to determine seed viability is still lacking.

Although the suborder includes some species that are destructive to crops for example, the seed chalcids (Eurytomidae)—the majority of species are beneficial to man.

Others function as agents that prevent deterioration of fats in plant tissues and seeds caused by destructive combination with oxygen.

Mediterranean and North American harvester ants (Messor, Atta, Tetramorium, and Pheidole) are essentially destructive, storing and fermenting many seeds and eating them completely.

Like a flower, we bloom out of the seeds of the destructive forces that wounded our tired delicate petals.