are known as scales. In conifers where the cone develops over more than one year (such as pines), the first year's growth of a seed scale on the cone,...

SEED-SCALE (abbreviation for: Self Evaluation for Effective Decision-making – Systems for Communities to Adapt Learning and Expand) describes a comprehensive...

times and was a staple food for Mesoamerican cultures. Chia seeds are cultivated on a small scale in their ancestral homeland of central Mexico and Guatemala...

largest seeds Recalcitrant seed Seed company Seed enhancement Seed library Seed orchard Seed paper Seed saving Seed testing Seed trap Seedbed Soil seed bank...

Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the division Pinophyta (/pɪˈnɒfɪtə, ˈpaɪnoʊfaɪtə/)...

the use of seed crystal to promote growth avoids the otherwise slow randomness of natural crystal growth, and allows manufacture on a scale suitable for...

A seed bank (also seed banks, seeds bank or seed vault) stores seeds to preserve genetic diversity; hence it is a type of gene bank. There are many reasons...

Seed of Chucky is a 2004 black comedy slasher film, the fifth installment of the Child's Play series, and sequel to 1998's Bride of Chucky as well as the...

provide $4.5 million in seed funding to Scale and his basement as a temporary headquarters. Within months, Wang and Guo realized Scale could fill the needs...

of effective initial conditions. Examples of these processes include SEED-SCALE, appreciative inquiry, Future Search, the world cafe or knowledge cafe...

The Scoville scale is a measurement of pungency (spiciness or "heat") of chili peppers and other substances, recorded in Scoville heat units (SHU). It...

The Kardashev scale (Russian: Шкала́ Кардашёва, romanized: Shkalá Kardashova) is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement...

mustard seed to demonstrate the world's insignificance and to teach humility. The mustard seed is mentioned in the Quran: "And We place the scales of justice...

movement becomes larger scale, affected plant tissues are colloquially termed hygromorphs. Hygromorphy is a common mechanism of seed dispersal as the movement...

The stale seed bed or false seed bed method is a weed control technique used at both the farm and garden scales. In this that the young weeds can then...

precision seeding usually refers to a mechanical process. A wide range of hand-push and powered precision seeders are available for small- to large-scale jobs...

contemporary application of this approach is shown in the social-change theory SEED-SCALE which builds off of the complexity theory subfield of emergence. Daoist:...

disintegrate and lose their seed scales, releasing the seeds until only the cone rachis remains attached to the branches. The seed scales are thin, broad, and...

Hypotheses for the evolution of mast seeding can broadly be assigned to three categories: economies of scale, resource matching, and proximate cues...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island...

leather, cuir bouilli, seeds, horn, or pangolin scales. The variations are primarily the result of material availability. Scale armour – a defence of great...

Scale insects are small insects of the order Hemiptera, suborder Sternorrhyncha. Of dramatically variable appearance and extreme sexual dimorphism, they...

Seed of 6ix is a Memphis, Tennessee rap group composed of Locodunit (Thomas Dunigan) and Lil Infamous (Ricky Dunigan, Jr.), who are the nephews of the...

Jojoba oil (/həˈhoʊbə/ ) is the liquid produced in the seed of the Simmondsia chinensis (jojoba) plant, a shrub, which is native to southern Arizona, southern...

consists of a single seed that becomes surrounded by a fleshy, cup-like covering. This covering is derived from a highly modified cone scale. In European yew...

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダムSEED(シード), Hepburn: Kidō Senshi Gandamu Shīdo) is an anime series developed by Sunrise and directed by Mitsuo...

resinous; the tips of the bract scales are slightly exserted between the seed scales. Each seed scale bears two winged seeds, released when the cones disintegrate...

ensures that seeds will be distributed evenly. The seed drill sows the seeds at the proper seeding rate and depth, ensuring that the seeds are covered...

Development of fruit 8: Ripening or maturity of fruit and seed 9: Senescence, beginning of dormancy BBCH-scales for plants or plant groups: Bean Beet Bulb vegetable...

(/tʃæf/; also UK: /tʃɑːf/) is dry, scale-like plant material such as the protective seed casings of cereal grains, the scale-like parts of flowers, or finely...