Sentences with phrase «produce viable seed»

Furthermore, beets are self - incompatible, meaning each plant must have pollen from a genetically different individual to produce viable seed.

This «gift» would have produced no viable seeds for future plantings and would have required a large amount of heavy chemical inputs.

Not exact matches

The species produces seeds early in its lifespan, tends to make millions of viable seeds during its life, and continues to produce seeds for decades and, in some cases, for more than a century.

«As long as the older trees are not so stressed that they do not produce many viable seeds, [and] the dispersal mechanism — for example, wind, birds, mammals — is present, and the habitat where the seed lands has the appropriate soil, nutrients and temperature,» says biologist Terry Root of Stanford University, who was not involved in the study, «then the trees will be able to shift.»

Mumm's Sprouting Seeds are reliable / viable - producing a good yield.