Seed companies

W. Shurdeff, "Breeding and Marketing Soybeans for Eood Uses A Blueprint for Changing Our Seed Company s Basic Mission," presented at Incoming S ojbean Technical Mission, sponsored by Ontario Soybean Growers Marketing Board, Harrow Research Station, Harrow, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 18,1994. 

American Institute of Baking, Report to Dumas Seed Company, 1978. 

Past meets future Seed exchanges and heirloom seed companies are a source of uncommon produce. Clockwise from top left the climbing string bean Cherokee Trail of Tears Salmon-Flowered pea tomato Tigerella leek Babington. ... 

Fourteen day old bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris L., lot DU15, Burpee Seed Company, Riverside, California) were used in these experiments. Plants were exposed to 0.4 ppm O3 for one hr in a fxmiigation chamber with the procediares and conditions outlined previously (J, ). Samples of the leaves were taken at the end of the fumigation period, and at one, two and four hr intervals after the fumigation period. Control samples for comparison were taken from untreated leaves. The samples were prepared for study with the electron microscope by fixation at... 

Anyone can save seeds from OP plants and many companies, organizations, and home gardeners do just that. Groups like Seed Savers Exchange have specialized in saving OP varieties that may have been passed down by somebody s grandmother, or may have been discontinued by a seed company because another variety was... 

Hybrids are inherently protected by the fact that the originator maintains the parents, and, thus, has a monopoly on the seed supply. Some companies, however, will PVP parents of hybrids, which would prevent one or both from being stolen and used. For the record, I prefer the respect method of protecting intellectual property to the legal method, e.g. PVP. If we find that some seed company has stolen one of our varieties, I like to think that I could call them and get them to stop. (R. Johnston, personal communication, 2006)... 

Because there are only two, Johnny s and other seed companies aren t giving up much by avoiding GE varieties. On the other hand, if Johnny s were to drop all the varieties grown with pesticides, (i.e., most of the hybrids and a good share of the OPs) many varieties would be unavailable. 

French Mammoth Hybrid — French origin. General type. Available from Bilim Seed Company, Idaho, U.S. 

Yankton-1 — U.S. origin (Michigan). White tubers. Late maturing. Available from Plant Gene Resources of Canada (PGRC), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0X2, Canada (accession NC10-67) acquired in 1978 from Burgess Seed Company. Kiehn and Chubey, 1993 (tubers, 15 to 46 t/ha). 

Not all the varieties of morning-glories available from seed companies are psyclioactive. Of those that are, the best known are Heavenly Blue (with large blue flowers). Pearly Gates (white), Wedding Bells (pink), and Flying Saucers (blue with white stripes). 

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