Sentence examples for upon seeds from inspiring English sources

Several migratory birds feed upon seeds and fruits until insects and spiders emerge and become available in summer.

[On the Nature of Things (Lucretius 1969 38, Book I. 155-191)] There is some power, a generative capacity, to make progeny resemble parents, and it seems to rely upon seeds.

To determine what kind of granivores are preying upon seeds, seeds of both species were excluded from and exposed to large and small granivores.

Overall, pre-dispersal losses were caused by wind and insect predation acting on flowers and developing fruits, whereas post-dispersal losses resulted from stratification during winter, and impact of microclimate and rodent predation upon seeds.

Human osteoblasts were found to proliferate upon seeding on the PLGA scaffolds.

Upon seed germination, the orchid embryo first develops into a protocorm before forming a plantlet.

This makes sense because sh4 accompanied the change from seeds that detach spontaneously upon seed maturation (in the wild) to seeds that detach only with physical stress (such as wind or harvesting upon seed maturation).

Osteoblast-like cells were seeded onto such scaffolds to investigate cell seeding efficiency and the ability to control the zonal distribution of cells upon seeding.

Since the small and large cells have distinct cell fate upon seed germination, a physiological polarity must also be present within the embryo prior to seed germination.

This study evaluates the morphology and extent of the capillary networks that developed upon seeding of human microvascular endothelial cells during tissue production.

According to Hutchings and Booth (1996), the species composition of the soil seed banks in semi-arid tropical environment are dependent upon seed rains from adjacent seed sources, indicating the contribution of outside tree canopies.