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.

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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.

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He used genetically modified seeds to feed his cattle

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He obtained Monsanto's patented seeds by illegal means.

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Abolish the patent law concerning genetically engineered seeds

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Bowman cannot plant the seeds without Monsanto's consent.

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

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Patent law on genetically modified seeds should not be challenged.

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Whether patent for seeds is harmful to agricultural production

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As she wrote in her description of the peacock flower," The Indians, who are not treated well by their Dutch masters, use the seeds to abort their children, so that they will not become slaves like themselves.

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At the start of her career, Farrant studied "recalcitrant seeds (顽物性种子)," such as avocados, coffee and lychee.

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

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Many of them are the same that regulate how seeds become dryness-tolerant while still attached to their parent plants.

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Most seeds can wait out the dry, unwelcoming seasons until conditions are right and they sprout.

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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.

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

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When that happens, many trees like walnuts, oaks and pines, rely 30 exclusively on so-called "scatter-hoarders, " such as birds, to move their seeds to new localities.

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While tasty, such seeds are delicate — they cannot bud and grow if they dry out as you may know if you've ever tried to grow a tree from an avocado pit.

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Are you going to put the seeds of tomatoes into the soil, too?

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He had hoped to sell more papers tonight to make more money to buy a cake for his mother and some seeds for his bird.

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He thought of his bird with no seeds and the cake he wanted to buy for his mother, but was determined that he would not tell a lie.

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Of the common berries, strawberries are highest in Vitamin C, although, because of their seeds, raspberries contain a little more protein, iron and zinc not that fruits have much protein.

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In October the Department of Justice filed a brief in the Myriad case, arguing that an isolated DNA molecule "is no less a product of nature... than are cotton fibres that have been separated from cotton seeds."

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