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Elaiosome
Seed bank
Seed (magazine)
Map seed
Kira Yamato
Seed predation
Achene
Emmer
SEED (Organisation)

XLR8R (pronounced "accelerator") is a magazine and website that covers music, culture, style, and technology.
Elaiosomes (Greek "élaion" "oil" and "sóma" "body") are fleshy structures that are attached to the seeds of many plant species.
 The elaiosome is rich in lipids and proteins, and may be variously shaped.
 Many plants have elaiosomes that attract ants, which take the seed to their nest and feed the elaiosome to their larvae.
 After the larvae have consumed the elaiosome, the ants take the seed to their waste disposal area, which is rich in nutrients from the ant frass and dead bodies, where the seeds germinate.
 This type of seed dispersal is termed myrmecochory from the Greek "ant" (myrmex) and "dispersal" (kore).
 This type of symbiotic relationship appears to be mutualistic, more specifically dispersive mutualism according to Ricklefs, R.E. (2001), as the plant benefits because its seeds are dispersed to favorable germination sites, and also because it is planted (carried underground) by the ants.
A seed bank (also seedbank or seeds bank) stores seeds to preserve genetic diversity; hence it is a type of gene bank.
 There are many reasons to store seeds.
 One reason is to have on-hand the genes that plant breeders need to increase yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance, nutritional quality, taste, etc. of plants used in agriculture (i.e., crops or domesticated species).
 Another reason is to forestall loss of genetic diversity in rare or imperiled plant species in an effort to conserve biodiversity ex situ.
 Many plants that were used centuries ago by humans are used less frequently now and seed banks offer a way to preserve that historical and cultural value.
 Collections of seeds stored at constant low temperature and moisture guard against loss of genetic resources that are otherwise maintained in situ or in field collections.
 These alternative 'living' collections can be damaged by natural disasters, outbreaks of disease or war.
 Seed banks are considered seed libraries and contain valuable information about evolved strategies to combat plant stress or can be used to create genetically modified versions of existing seeds.
 The work of seed banks spans decades and even centuries.
 Most seed banks are publicly funded and seeds are usually available for research that benefits the public.
Seed (subtitled "Science Is Culture"; originally "Beneath the Surface") is an online science magazine published by Seed Media Group.
 The magazine looks at big ideas in science, important issues at the intersection of science and society, and the people driving global science culture.
 "Seed" was founded in Montreal by Adam Bly and the magazine is now headquartered in New York with bureaus around the world.
 May/June 2009 (Issue No. 22) was the last print issue.
 Content continues to be published on the website.
In video games using procedural world generation, the map seed is a (relatively) short number or text string which is used to procedurally create the game world ("map").
 This means that while the seed-unique generated map may be many megabytes big (often generated incrementally and virtually unlimited in potential size), it is possible to reset to the unmodified map, or the unmodified map can be exchanged between players, just by specifying the map seed.
 An example of a map seed in Minecraft is "-2242547518357798464".
 Map seeds are a type of random seeds.
Kira Yamato (キラ・ヤマト ) is a fictional character first introduced as the protagonist from the 2002 Japanese anime television series "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED", which was produced by Sunrise as part of the Gundam franchise.
 In the series, Kira is a first-generation Coordinator, a genetically enhanced human being born of normal humans (Naturals).
 At the beginning of "Gundam SEED", Kira lives on the neutral space colony Heliopolis to avoid the war between the Coordinators and the Naturals, but the colony becomes involved in the war shortly thereafter.
 Kira is the only person within the Earth Alliancethe Naturals' military factionwho is able to effectively pilot their mobile suita type of a mecha created by them.
 He is forced to become a mobile suit pilot and to participate in various battles to protect his friends.
 Kira has also been featured in "Gundam SEED"' s direct sequel, "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny", in which he fights to stop a new war between the races' military organizations.
Seed predation, often referred to as granivory, is a type of plant-animal interaction in which granivores (seed predators) feed on the seeds of plants as a main or exclusive food source, in many cases leaving the seeds damaged and not viable.
 Granivores are found across many families of vertebrates (especially mammals and birds) as well as invertebrates (mainly insects); thus, seed predation occurs in virtually all terrestrial ecosystems.
 Seed predation is commonly divided into two distinctive temporal categories, pre-dispersal and post-dispersal predation, which may involve different strategies and requirements and have different implications at the individual and population level.
 Nevertheless, regardless of timing, seed predation has great implications for plant population dynamics.
 To counterbalance effects of predation, plants have evolved defenses such as seed morphology (size, shape, toughness) and chemical defenses (secondary compounds such as tannins and alkaloids) to defend against their seed predators.
 However, as plants have adapted defenses to seed predation (e.g., chemical compounds), so have seed predators adapted to plant defenses (e.g., ability to detoxify chemical compounds).
 Thus, many interesting examples of coevolution arise from this dynamic relationship.
An achene (Greek ἀ, "a", privative + χαίνειν, "chainein", to gape; also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp) is a type of simple dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. Achenes are monocarpellate (formed from one carpel) and indehiscent (they do not open at maturity).
 Achenes contain a single seed that nearly fills the pericarp, but does not adhere to it.
 In many species, what is called the "seed" is an achene, a fruit containing the seed.
 The seed-like appearance is owed to the hardening of the wall of the seed-vessel, which encloses the solitary seed so closely as to seem like an outer coat.
Emmer wheat, also known as farro especially in Italy, or hulled wheat, is a type of awned wheat.
 Emmer is a tetraploid (2n=4x=28 chromosomes).
 The domesticated species are "Triticum turgidum" subsp.
 "dicoccum" and "Triticum turgidum "conv."
 durum".
 The wild species is called "Triticum turgidum" subsp.
 "dicoccoides".
 The principal difference between the wild and the domestic species is that the ripened seed head of the wild species shatters and spreads the seed onto the ground, while in the domesticated emmer, the seed head remains intact, thus making it easier for humans to harvest the grain.
SEED is a global partnership for action on sustainable development and the green economy.
 It was initiated in 2001 by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB).
 Under the name "SEED Initiative" it was presented as an “Example of Excellence” partnership inter alia by UNEP and BMUB at the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 where it was also registered by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as a Type II Partnership.
 SEED was originally conceived as an acronym for Supporting Entrepreneurs for Environment and Development.