Sentence examples for germinating from inspiring English sources

Now his aides are weaving pre-emption into a new national security strategy to be presented in the autumn.In fact, the idea has been germinating in the president's mind for some time.

The researchers and their colleagues did the experiment on tomato seeds, germinating them in standard plant-growth medium that had been doped with nanotubes and comparing the result with seeds grown in undoped medium.

About a third of the world's rice paddies have salt problems, and yields in such briny fields may be half what they would be if the water in them were fresh.To induce the mutations, Dr Abe bombarded germinating seeds with carbon ions for 30 seconds.

Any germinating cereal grain can be used for malt.

The megaspores of Selaginella, containing female gametophytes with still-attached juvenile sporophytes, have the superficial appearance of germinating seeds, from which, however, they differ in many significant respects.

On Easter Island, for example, legends maintain that the earliest settlers brought germinating coconuts but that the plants subsequently died.

During its later years the Venetian republic was estranged from the fervour of new ideas germinating in other nations.

As far as is known, cycad seeds have no dormant period or after-ripening requirements and in some cases actually begin germinating while still attached to sporophylls.

Unfortunately, most of what was germinating at that time never got recorded because of a recording ban imposed by the American Federation of Musicians during much of 1942 43.

The germinating embryo remains attached to the female gametophyte for as long as two years, absorbing nutrition through its cotyledons, which remain embedded in the female gametophyte.

By partially germinating the seed and then chilling it to 0° C (32° F) until spring, it is possible to cause winter wheat to produce a crop in the same year.