#seed selection

[farmerstrend]

How Does Plant Breeding Work? And What Are F1 Hybrids?

Plant breeding is an age-old science, deeply rooted in the quest to enhance crop quality, yield, and resilience. Whether you’re a farmer aiming to improve your harvest or a curious gardener fascinated by the diversity of plant varieties, understanding how plant breeding works—and what F1 hybrids are—offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of agricultural innovation. Let’s break it down step…

[kids-worldfun]

Cultivating Success: How to Choose the Right Weed Seed Bank for Your Garden

Growing your cannabis can be a deeply rewarding experience, whether you’re a seasoned cultivator or just starting. However, the foundation of any successful growth begins long before you ever plant a seed in the soil. Choosing the right weed seed bank is crucial to your garden’s success, as the quality of your seeds directly impacts your plants’ health, yield, and potency. With so many seed…

[farming-seeds]

From choosing the right varieties to understanding soil conditions, this guide empowers you to make the perfect decision to choose the best quality vegetable seeds for your garden.

[parveens-kitchen]

Homemade sprouts in a hot box

Homemade sprouts are a nutritious addition to any diet, packed with vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. One of the simplest and most cost-effective ways to grow your own sprouts is by using a hot box or casserole. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of creating your own sprouting system at home and producing fresh and healthy sprouts. **Materials You’ll Need:**1. A hot box or…

[wadkarsworld]

The Science of Seed Selection: How to Choose the Right Seeds for Your Crops

Seed selection plays a crucial role in agriculture, as it simultaneously affects yields and profits. Informed selections during seed choice are essential to maximizing yield capacity and ensuring pleasant crop production. In seed selection, Yara, a main agricultural solution company, provides precious assets and know-how to assist farmers in making informed alternatives. Yara acknowledges the importance of seed selection for premier manufacturing and gives various seed solutions desirable for specific crop requirements. Partnering with seed breeders and vendors, they produce certain high-quality seeds in line with present day agricultural practices.

Importance of Seed Selection in Agriculture 

Seed selection is an important step in agriculture as it determines genetic ability and crop performance. Superior yields have suitable tendencies, inclusive of sickness resistance, progressed yield, and environmental pressure tolerance. By choosing the proper seeds, farmers can optimize their possibilities for better yields, higher advertising, and advanced income. 

Additionally, the choice of cultivars and hybrids guarantees their first-class performance under specific climates and growing situations. Seed selection is the foundation for successful crop production, permitting farmers to take advantage of advances in plant breeding and genetics to fulfill the needs of a rapidly growing agricultural enterprise. 

Role of Genetics and Seed Quality in Crop Production 

Genetics and seed excellence have a big effect on crop production. Genetic tendencies impact traits, which include yield, pest and ailment resistance, adaptation to different climatic situations, and ordinary plant vigor. Quality seed is produced via careful breeding, checking out, and seed remedy to ensure uniformity, purity, and dietary quality. Such good quality seeds provide a full life crop start, taking into consideration perseverance in germination, vigorous early growth, and exact plant establishment. By choosing best quality seeds with the right genetic material, farmers formulate strategies for successful crop production, allowing flora to attain their full ability and perform the favored features of the subject 

Types of Organic Fertilizers and Their Benefits 

Organic seeds and fertilizers offer a more sustainable and environmentally pleasant way to develop plants. They are derived from natural sources, including plant and animal dependencies, compost, and manure. Common organic substances include compost, crimson meal, bone meal, fish scraps, and green waste. These chemical substances offer crucial vitamins to vegetation, at the same time enhancing soil fertility, structure, and water retention. 

Unlike fertilizers, fertilizers release nutrients slowly, balancing plant growth and lowering nutrient absorption. They additionally beautify soil microbial activity, keeping soil ecosystems healthy. The integration of organic fertilizers into agricultural practices contributes to higher soil fitness, reduces the environmental footprint, and contributes to the long-term sustainability of the plants produced. 

Factors to Consider When Choosing Seeds 

Several elements must be taken into consideration while deciding on the best seeds for crops. 

Environmental factors, which include weather, soil conditions, and water availability, play a critical role in achieving the most efficient yield. 

To ensure the finest boom and yield, plant seeds need to be selected based totally on their suitability for precise environmental situations. In addition, it's essential to remember the kind of crop and the target market. 

Different crops have unique wishes and marketplace requirements that have an effect on seed choice. 

Farmers ought to additionally examine suitable crop traits, which include yield capability, disorder resistance, marketplace choices, and many others, to maintain their production goals. 

The Importance of Making Informed Choices 

Informed choices throughout seed selection are paramount to maximizing yield and profitability. By thinking about factors inclusive of genetics, yield quality, environmental suitability, and market demand, farmers can pick agricultural seeds that meet their production dreams and ensure excessive overall performance. Seeds' knowledgeable choice enables farmers to gain upgrades in plant breeding and genetics, resulting in stepped forward types and hybrids and suited developments that reduce crop failure, ailment outbreaks, and the hazard of market rejection. 

By informing their seed choices, conducting research, seeking expert advice, and taking advantage of available sources, farmers could make knowledgeable decisions that improve their farming practices, boost yields, and aid their overall fulfillment and sustainability in their agricultural operations. 

Conclusion 

Seed choice is a science that requires careful consideration of genetics, seed high-quality, surroundings, and market demand. By understanding crop desires and making knowledgeable choices, farmers can enhance their production, maximize profits, and contribute to sustainable agriculture. 

Choosing the best seeds is the inspiration for success, harnessing the energy of plant genetics to satisfy the challenges of dynamic and growing ecosystems in agricultural landscaping. By using Yara’s seed selection solutions, farmers can increase the yield, profitability, and sustainability of their plants. YARA’s commitment to innovation and sustainable agriculture is aligned with the aim of a knowledgeable desire for merchandise that causes green and environmentally friendly crop production.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

idk why, but your art is the image my browser uses for tumblr, which means I get to look at it all the time~

Tumblr said “you need a silly little guy to wave at you” and boy howdy is that silly guy waving.

[badseed-63]

www.badseedphoto.com

[gelatinorifice]

You are not immune to Trans Benrey Pot

[lilies-of-the-fields]

it's kind of driving me bonkers that there's so much info on the web for cultivating wildlife gardens/landscapes or permaculture-type gardens but much less so for both.

maybe it's just that im getting too much SEO driven garbage in my search results?? anyone have any recs either for improving the searches or for sites w/ that type of info? i'm based in SE Turtle Island, altho frankly if info was based on Turtle Island in general i would not complain at this point

[direwombat]

shoutout to the viking au for getting me to pick up my sketchbook and start scribbling again

[theodoradevlin]

"Theo! Thank Merlin's buttocks!"

A blur of blue flashes in your vision before you manage to make out the small Ravenclaw bounding around you.

"I have new information I feel am liable to share with someone," she pauses, as though bracing herself, "squirrels can only find a quarter of the nuts they hide each season."

"Isn't that beautifully tragic...?"

The colorful exclamation sends a rather stunning image through Theo’s mind and she finds she needs to blink into focus when her animated friend comes into view.

She can’t help but notice the similarities Wren has to her long eared, cotton tailed counterpart. Theo has a sudden urge boop her nose, or put her in her pocket, but restrains herself for now to hear what her friend is so fired up about.

“Wren! Merlin and his buttocks couldn’t be happier to see you than I am - what’s this information?”

As Wren braces herself, Theo's smile falters just a bit as she considers the compelling new information.

“Squirrels? A quarter of their nuts you say? Hmmm…”

Squirrels had been following her every move lately. Looking at her with their beady little eyes from treetops, following her to class, stealing all the seeds she left for various birds when she was foraging. They were quite greedy things when it came to food on Hogwarts grounds.

In fact, one had the gall to stare her down the entire time she nibbled on a cauldron cake on a bench after class. She maintained eye contact, and got away with her snack and her life that day.

She looks back to Wren, heated passion overcoming her all of a sudden like a tidal wave, “WELL what if they’ve just gotten LAZY? After all they seem to have no problem helping themselves to HUMAN food. If I want to go to the forbidden forest, it’s not even the spiders I’m worried about anymore! Maybe it’s MORE tragic to live under the watch of these bushy tailed TYRANTS-”

She takes a deep breath as she realizes now SHE is the one moving in frenzied circles around Wren.

“Sorry, got a bit carried away…” She gives a crazed laugh, before looking at her friend with serious concern, “.. But don’t trust the squirrels Wren. Please. It’s dangerous.’

[neverfeltthewinterquitesodead]

absolutely blissful looking through native plant images

[theoarfishexpress]

The Deities and Divine Selection

Of the many evolutionary sandboxes tended to and observed by deities, the Tetrarch is among those which is shared. Some are the concerted efforts of duos, or pantheons of several dozen, but the Tetrarch is the creation of four beings:

Fulgiel, the shining flame,

Exypniel, the cunning waves,

Taxidiel, the wandering wind,

and Firmiel, the steadfast soil.

Their origins, true nature, and relation to one another are all up for debate, but they show a curious correspondence to the four classical elements which some ancient greek philosophy held as the basic components of the world. It is difficult to say whether this indicates some innate association with Earth, given the enigma that deities present as a whole. As is the natural state for deities, they are incorporeal and have no true location, merely focusing their attention and faculties on the Tetrarch.

Using the manipulation of natural processes all deities rely on to interact with the universe, the four deities first terraformed a suitable world. Once it was inhabitable, it was populated via a seeding process which effectively fabricated individuals as copies of those on Earth. Founding life was introduced over several thousand years, constantly supervised to prevent ecological collapse, until every member of the perplexing assemblage of species was present and established.

Once everything was in order, each deity took jurisdiction of a quarter of the population of each founding species, ensuring that each of the four populations created this way were distributed evenly across the range of that species. They achieved this by preventing reproduction between these populations, walling them off genetically and effectively creating separate species. All descendants of each deity's populations would remain under their oversight for the duration of the Tetrarch, uninterrupted and without exchange between deities. In relation to their respective populations, as well as all members and descendants thereof, a deity is referred to as a patron deity. The abbreviated form, PD, in combination with the deity’s name abbreviated to the first two letters, is used to identify the patron deity of the subject, yielding the four patronages: PD Fu., PD Ex., PD Ta., and PD Fi.

Each deity now the patron of a quarter of the world’s life, the Tetrarch had officially begun, and they settled in to observe. Incomprehensibly vast, a deity’s attention can be divided across an entire planet, unique in the universe in being a type of “pure perception” that gathers information without affecting the subject in any way. From the synthesis of individual proteins, to the sweeping dynamics of entire ecosystems, the Tetrarch is a grand symphony of life which they alone can fully appreciate, and they marvelled at each curiosity as their creation developed. Over evolutionary time, traits would surface that the patron deity of the population in question found intriguing enough to encourage. These are referred to as “favored” traits to distinguish them from naturally advantageous ones.

Selecting for the new phenotype by subtly improving the population’s overall reproductive success, it would become more prevalent and affect the evolution of the lineage. Gradually, species would accumulate these traits, increasing their favor with their patron. The deities never select against traits, but favored forms are more likely to succeed and outcompete their kin thanks to divine selection. As such finding life in the Tetrarch without obvious favored traits is rare. However, natural selection is still in play, and selection for a favored trait can still be outweighed if it is selected against by the rest of the environment. In this way, a species cannot become dependent on divine favor, and, theoretically, will always remain able to survive in its environment without the benefit of its patron deity.

As each deity has a different personality, they have markedly different interests in the Tetrarch’s life. These manifest in which traits they tend to select for in their subject populations, giving rise to obvious trends.

Fulgiel seems to emphasize spectacle, a prime example being one of their more obvious favored traits, visual display, especially involving bright or contrasting coloration, and bioluminescence. As social habits are also valued, this has the secondary effect in PD Fu. animals of selecting for well-developed vision, allowing for visual communication. Visual display may also take the form of aposematism, warning that Fulgiel favors all forms of chemical offense and defense, from merely unpalatable compounds to potent toxins. Though somewhat rare to see in a developed form, Fulgiel will promote thermogenesis, or the production of heat, through metabolic or mechanical means. While this can then lead to the evolution of endothermy, warm-bloodedness is interestingly never directly selected for. There is also divine selection in PD Fu. life for association with environmental heat sources, but only those hot enough to be dangerous, such as geothermal phenomena, wildfires, and extreme solar heating. One of the most important of Fulgiel’s preferences is that for terrestrial lifestyles, encouraging aquatic life onto land and preventing secondary returns to the water. As a result, nearly all PD Fu. diversity is on land, only a small fraction of it found in freshwater or marine settings. All of these traits have notable direct or symbolic parallels to fire, but some examples are more subtle, such as selection for high energy intake, regardless of actual energy source. This can take various forms but is always a large influence on the ecology of PD Fu. life, animals and other consumers using energy-dense food sources, while producers might favor strong sun exposure, at least in the case of plants and other phototrophs.

Exypniel’s tastes are more nuanced, but they could be said to value resourcefulness. There are many inventive ways to exploit biology and the environment, and this is much of what is selected for in PD Ex. life. Perhaps the simplest of their favored traits is an aquatic lifestyle, but it is also very influential, reversing the trend seen in PD Fu. diversity and resulting in much higher PD Ex. diversity in aquatic environments than terrestrial ones. More difficult to define, but similarly broad, is Exypniel’s selection for “intelligence”. This is often expressed as relatively high cognitive intelligence in animals, but the boundaries of the concept become less clear in other examples, such as “learning” capabilities in the growth patterns of plants. Symbiosis is also favored in PD Ex. life, which contrary to popular belief, is not exclusive to mutually beneficial relationships. Instead, it also encompasses one-sided associations in which one party is unaffected, commensalism, or harmed, parasitism. PD Ex. parasites demonstrate an interesting perspective on Exypniel’s part, which is that the interior of an organism can be considered an aquatic environment, resulting in the evolution of many more internal parasites than external ones. Another more nebulous trait selected for in PD Ex. life is the individual’s ability to alter some aspect of their biology. This is easily and frequently seen in an octopus-like capacity to change color and shape, but extends to cases such as environmental polymorphism, where development can be tuned to external conditions, and adaptive physiology, the ability to alter biological processes as needed. Many favored traits fall outside of these wide umbrellas, however, such as the production of “utility” substances. These can be best defined as substances whose purpose is primarily physical, such as beeswax, spider silk, and the mucus of hagfish, often used in the creation of structures, for defense, or to trap prey. The last of Exypniel’s favored traits to be noted here is the use of electrical or magnetic phenomena. While most examples of this are on the scale of microbiology, more apparent cases involve the ability to detect the planet’s magnetic field, the ability to detect the weak electric fields emitted by animals, and the ability to generate more powerful electric fields for navigation, defense, or hunting.

Taxidiel’s interests tend to foster the pioneering, especially through their selection for mobility. The more frequently and effectively a PD Ta. organism can move around, the better. In animals and other motile life, this often presents physically as speed and agility, and in overall lifestyle as nomadic or migratory tendencies, which can result in vast ranges. Taxidiel also favors arboreality, resulting in high PD Ta. diversity in forests, and often leading into their most iconic interest, flight. Powered or not, volancy has evolved far more frequently in PD Ta. animals than it would naturally, and is developed further in the already-winged. However, Taxidiel also selects for passive movement, by water or especially wind action. Among animals, this is most obvious in an abundance of planktonic lifestyles, but it is especially important for less motile organisms, such as many microorganisms, fungi, plants, the majority of life. Here movement is usually achieved by allowing spores, pollen, seeds, or sometimes the entire organism to be picked up by currents or the wind and carried elsewhere. Selection for arboreality in these instances is just as influential as in animals, encouraging the evolution of epiphytic growth habits. Outside of these varied aspects of mobility, Taxidiel favors pneumaticity. Pneumaticity as defined here is the presence of gas pockets in the tissue of an organism for any purpose, and if present, they are often adapted to sensory reception, to save weight, or to amplify sounds. Sound production is favored in PD Ta. life regardless of mechanism, medium, or use, becoming even more widespread than on Earth. It is often associated with the evolution of hearing, which Taxidiel also selects for, those already able to detect sound exaggerating the sense, and “ears” evolving independently in many other types of PD Ta. life. Perhaps the simplest trait that Taxidiel favors is gracility, slender and elegant proportions.

Firmiel follows a theme of hardiness and simplicity. In contrast to Taxidiel, they select for sedentary habits, the less travel the better, which often results in permanent home ranges or even the evolution of a sessile lifestyle in previously motile organisms. They are also a contrast to Fulgiel in regards to their favor for low average energy intake. PD Fi. consumers thus either adapt to calorie-poor diets, or to eat less frequently, while producers rely on less dense energy sources, phototrophs for example often preferring low light conditions. This core concept of passivity can also be seen in Firmiel's selection for camouflage, and not necessarily of the visual sort, PD Fi. life also using olfactory or auditory stealth as two examples. One of PD Fi. life's more distinctive favored traits is life in soil, sediment, or even stone. For larger animals, this usually leads to burrowing behavior, but caves also seem to count as subterranean for Taxidiel, while smaller animals and many other organisms may simply live in the pore space between grains. For sessile life, putting more biomass into below-substrate structures increases favor. Hardened tissues are selected for in PD Fi. life, especially if they are mineralized. This presents most obviously in the development of external “armor”, but it can also cause the evolution of internal skeletons and other structures, sometimes incorporating high amounts of inorganic materials. Finally, Firmiel appears to share Taxidiel’s appreciation of form, selecting for robust proportions.

However, the deities are beings of free will, and their behavior is far more complex and unpredictable than this brief overview can portray. For example, the deities will occasionally lift divine selection pressures from lineages for a time. No longer restricted by favored traits, they can diversify more, allowing for possibilities which would otherwise be unlikely. In this way, divine and natural selection each have a different role in the grand game that the Tetrarch is to the deities: where divine selection derives, natural selection diversifies.

[dearlybelovedemilyko]

i still don't think anthony killed christopher btw

[malachitezmeyka]

Since I’m visiting back home I have stolen borrowed my sister’s switch to play Pokemon and animal crossing, and that, of course, got me thinking about if Pokemon existed in the avatar universe, which ones would my OCs have

(Up front, I don’t see either of them going into competitive championships, too much shit going on in their lives to even consider it. Oh, and also, my knowledge of Pokemon comes entirely from my sister infodumping, me watching the entire first season of the anime twice, getting a bit too invested in Hanamusa fanart and playing Y, Moon and Shield (never getting to the end of a single one rip) so keep that in mind)

For Midori I feel like she’d have the ones that she could naturally find in the backyard while doing gardening or other work – oddish and bellsprout and budew and the like. Maybe a sandshrew or caterpie or rattata. I’m completely obsessed with eeveelutions so if she had an eevee, it’d evolve into a sylveon bc of how much love Midori has to give. Starter-wise, if she had one despite not doing competitive battling, definitely a bulbasaur, but since she doesn’t use it for anything but help around the garden it probably wouldn’t ever evolve, though they’re both okay with that. And I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t shoehorn some angst in, so before the RL left for the South Pole, Ghazan gave Midori his camerupt for safe keeping, saying it would protect her in case she needed it. She hides the pokeball with it from Haya and only lets it out of she knows no one will see her, terrified Haya would do something to such a blatant reminder of her brother

Suiren’s a bit harder since she has enough to worry about without getting a bunch of animals involved, but theoretically, I’m thinking squirtle for a starter that she has managed to evolve into a wartortle but not further yet. Eeveelution wise vaporeon would be the obvious choice but with her cold nature I think she’d invest in an ice stone instead and get a glaceon. I like to imagine that while she was travelling for a mission one day she ran across an absol in the mountains and took it home despite knowing the rumours it was a bringer of disasters and a bad omen (she relates to it, but you couldn’t waterboard that out of her). Maybe she found a yanma in the swamp at some point and kept it once she found out how cool its evolution looks. Likewise, she found a phantump and, remembering how phantumps come to be, couldn’t bear the thought of leaving it (and, well, its evolution and how it controls trees through roots reminds her of the swamp). Back with the angst, she inherited her mom’s milotic (Ming-Hua was a kid when she found the ugliest fucking fish she’d ever seen in a swamp lake and snuck it food. It warmed up to her and eventually she stole a pokeball and caught it. Fast forward a few years and it suddenly became the most gorgeous pokemon in existence. Shit happens). She hides it too but once she learned how to navigate the swamp she takes it to that very lake.

Suiren leaves her pokemon with Midori when she goes on missions, not wanting to endanger them, and every time Midori is scared that those pokemon will end up being the last things she has left of her sister, just like the camerupt and milotic are the last things left of her parents

[msbarrows]

..I think you might be confusing sweet potatoes with something else. Sweet potatoes are Ipomoea batatas and in the same general family as morning glory and bindweed. Regular potatoes are Solanum tuberosum and come from the family that contains nightshade and tomatoes. But absolutely yes they're both the end result of generations of human selective breeding - 7k+ years for potatoes and at least 5k for sweet potatoes.

Any kind. And if you feel like it put in thr tags your favorite kind/ why you dont.