Where do the seeds of change come from? The Native American Indians have a saying: Pay attention to the whispers so you won't have to hear the screams.

Doctors used carrot seeds and roots as medicine, on the theory that foods that taste bad must be good for you.

There is a view that modern humans are inevitably sowing the seeds of a global Grand Banks-style disaster.

Other birds unknowingly carry seeds that cling to them for the ride.

Have we really gotten to the point that planting a seed can lead to a high-stakes Supreme Court patent lawsuit?

But Monsanto, the agricultural giant, insists it has a patent on the kind of genetically modified seeds Bowman used―and that the patent continues to all of the progeny (后代)of those seeds.

If farmers like Bowman are able to use these seeds without paying the designated fee, it will remove the incentives for companies like Monsanto to innovate.

He used genetically modified seeds to feed his cattle

He obtained Monsanto's patented seeds by illegal means.

Abolish the patent law concerning genetically engineered seeds

Bowman cannot plant the seeds without Monsanto's consent.

Monsanto has the right to recover the costs of its patented seeds

Patent law on genetically modified seeds should not be challenged.

Whether patent for seeds is harmful to agricultural production

In short, savings are the seed corn of a good economic harvest.

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In the seed world, that makes them rare, because most seeds from flowering plants are quite robust.

The bird Clark's nutcracker, for example, hides up to 100, 000 seeds per year, up to 30 kilometers away from the seed source, and has a very close symbiotic(共生的) relationship with several pine species, most 32 notably the whitebark pine.

These practices include grazing animals on grasses grown from the pastureland's natural seed bunk, and fertilized by the cows' own fertilizer.