Sunflower seeds specifically or any oil seeds. what are the considerations and remidies.
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High-throughput DNA Isolation Protocol \n\nCTAB Method \n\n1.      Add 80 ul 2-mercaptoethanol to 40 ml CTAB buffer (see recipe below) right before use (0.2%) and mix. \n\n2.      Preheat CTAB DNA isolation buffer to 65°C in a water bath. \n\n3.      Grind freeze-dried leaf tissue (~100mg) in a Mixer Mill for 3-5 min at 30 time/sec with one 3mm steel bead in a 1.1 ml  tube strip from Qiagen\n\n4.      Carefully pour beads out of tubes and add 300 ul CTAB buffer into each tube with a multi-channel pipette (if a plate is used, you can leave beads in until the end of work)\n\n5.      Cap the tube strips and label each strip, caps and rack, incubate the samples in 65 °C water bath for 60-80 min, use shipping tape to secure the rack and lid to prevent caps from openning up while inverting the rack to mix samples.\n\n6.      Mix samples every 15 min by inverting rack 5-10 times to make sure plant tissue mixes well with the buffer. Watch for sample leaking from caps. \n\n7.      Take samples out of water bath, briefly spin sample box in a centrifuge for 1 min at 1500 rpm (balance box weight before spinning), separate caps from tube and put the cap strips on clean paper and arrange them in order so that they can be reused. \n\n8.      Add 300 Chl/IAA (25:1) into each tube with a multi-channel pipette, cap tube with original cap strips, put a plastic board between tube cap and rack lid to make sure every strip cap gets the same pressure from the lid, cover the box with lid, secure the lid with shipping tape. Mix the samples by inverting the box slowly for 15 min (Chloroform can create pressure and cause leaks of chloroform, so the tubes have to be tightly capped).\n\n9.      Centrifuge at 5,700 rpm  for 10 min. \n\n10.  Transfer the aqueous phase using a wide-bore pipette tip (about 200ul) into a labeled clean plate (650 ul plate), add 150 ul of cold isopropanol (-20 °C), securely cover the plate with a plate cover (or cap strips) and mix gently by inverting the plate several times to precipitate DNA. \n\n11.  Recover the DNA by centrifuging at 5,700 rpm (6100g) for 10 min. Discard the supernatant immediately by suddenly inverting the plate and dry it briefly on several layers of paper towels by briefly touching the plate on paper towels two to three times on different positions of towel to remove excess liquid. This step should be very quick (a few seconds). Then turn the plate back upright and air-dry samples to remove excess liquid for ~10 min.\n\n12.  Add 500 ul of 70% Ethanol directly to the pellet, cover the plate, and invert it gently several times to wash  for 5 min. \n\n13.  Centrifuge at 5,700 rpm for 8 min, and quickly discard wash buffer as described previously (check DNA pellet in each well to make sure DNA stayed in the bottoms of wells\n\n14.  Air-dry DNA pellet at room temperature for ~20 mins to remove excess liquid.\n\n15.  Re-suspend the DNA pellet in 200 u1 of ddH2O and leave it at 4°C overnight \n\n16.  DNA concentration will be ~100ng /ul and can be determined using either an agarose gel or a spectrophotometer. \n\n \n\n                                                                            CTAB  DNA Isolation Buffer (500 ml) \n\n \n\n2% (w/v) CTAB (sigma)\n 10.0 g\n \n1.4M NaCI\n 40.91 g\n \n20 mM EDTA\n 20 m1 of 0.5 M EDTA \n \n100 mM Tris. HCI (pH 8.0)\n 50 ml of 1.0 M\n \nAdd ddH2O to make a final volume of 500 ml \n \n\n \n\nSDS Method \n\n1.      1-2 young leaves (~100mg) are placed in a labeled 1.1-ml collection tube or in a plate well, freeze-dried, and ground for 3-5 min at 30x/sec to a fine powder using a Mixer Mill and one 3-4mm steel bead in each well. (To isolate DNA from dry seeds, half to 3 seeds are wrapped with a weighing paper, crushed with pliers, placed in a col1ection tube or   in a deep-well plate ).\n\n2.      Preheat extraction buffer to 65°C in a water bath. (If the tissue samples are stored at -20°C, allow them to warm up to room temperature).\n\n3.      Add 0.2% (v/v) ß-mercap
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They appear to be fine.  I would recommend that you reduce your intake of partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, and deep fat fried foods.
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ripened ovary, seeds, flowering plant
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Commercial processing of seeds is designed to ensure maximal germination, not to stop them germinating.\n\n\nThe simple fact is that not all seeds are viable, just as not all pregnacies result in children.\n\n\nFor various reasons seeds can fail. Sometimes that is because of genetic flaws within the seeds. Sometimes the seeds get infected with diseases or mites that eat them before they germinate.\n\n\nMostly seeds fail simply because theye weren't treated right. Sometimes the seeds are too old and have died. Sometimes they are buried too deep, or have been watered too much, or not watered enough, or let get to hot, or too cold or a million other environmental factors that prevent germination.
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My partner is on a strict diet and as part of his diet he has to have seeds.  You can only have a certain amount of sesame seeds, so 1 tablespoon per day is all that is allowed.  I beleive it can upset your digestive system if you eat too much of it.  He also has to have pumpkin seeds, flaxseed and sunflower seeds.  \nWhat I do for him is sprinkle them over his salad at night and it tastes really nice that way.  Hope this helps you.  Poppet from Australia
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This is a chicken-or-egg question....but not all plants make seeds...so the fact is that some plants reproduce by other means..aka no seed was needed, even at the beginning.\n \nDepending on your beliefs:\n\n1. All plants were instantly created as they are now. Seeded plants from seeds or "original" plants, and non-seeding plants from "orginal plants". Just created and unchanging.\n\n2. A few types of master plants families were created and subsequent diversification created sub types. Created, then evolved.\n\n3. Plants come from ancient photosynthetic ancestors and continue to develop today. Prior to the Cretacious period, no plants were flowering, and thus there were no seeds. Classic evolution scenario.\n\nContrary to popular opinion, evolution and creationism don't inherently contradict each other - all life could have been designed to come from proto-organisms into the great variety of life we have today, or diversity has been there all along, but ongoing evolution allows for environmental adaption. One does not prevent/prove/deny the existence of the other.\n\nIf life did not have any abiltity to adapt, it would quickly die. If all plants died from freezing temperatures, vast parts of the world would become barren because of minor climactic variations. Even breeding plants is a kind of evolution...big, fast growing wheat is likely to make us want to grow it more. We are the key environmental factor in that scenario. Most life on Earth has the ability to adapt and change in response the environment, up to a certain point.\n\nSo if someone says that God pre-engineered all life to be able to adapt for its own survival, it is an opinion that is supported by some facts. (medicinal plants, frost hardy plants, creatures with perfect camouflage, interdependency of all species, seeds that only open after a fire, etc)\n\nIf someone else says that life just randomly evolves without any outside guidance, it is also an opinion that is supported by some facts. (useless/harmful biological mutations, randomly mutating diseases, vestigial organs, cancer, etc)\n\nLike all things, in the end it is a matter of faith and your personal beliefs.\n\nI prefer to look at the amazing variety of life that we have in today's world and not worry too much about their extinct ancestors...the laws and properties of life and the universe are what they are.
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Raw Cabbage, Spinach or  Asparagus and  Whole Grains, Vegetable Oils  and Wheat Germ
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It can be any type of animal (cow, chicken, kitten, buffalo, frog, etc.) or corn on the cob or a pomegranate (peel, eat, spit out seeds)...shall I go on?
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Dr.Johanna Budwig;s Flaxseed Oil and Cottage Cheese has saved many people from certain death.\n\n\n\n    1 cup Organic cottage cheese (low fat, soft freshly made cheese, best make your own)(or use yogurt)\n    2-5 Tbsp. of flaxseed oil-\n    1-3 Tbsp. of freshly ground up flaxseed (electric coffee grinder ($15) works fine)\n    enough water to make it soft\n    little cayenne (red hot chilly pepper)\n\n    little red pepper\n\nYou might want to find what she has found to be miraculous about this combination of foods.
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It deals with the chemistry of food, for example how much fat, oil, starch, fiber etc is in Corn.  How to extract all of these components from corn.  The shape of the oil molecules, fat molecules etc.  Hope this helps:)
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sow, as to sow (plant) a seed
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During germination the materials in a seed have to be changed into chemicals (nutrients) that be used immediately or transported to where they are needed.\nMost seeds store their carbohydrates as starch. This has to be changed into glucose.\nThis is controlled and catalysed by special protein molecules called...\n(Clue: in your gut, what changes starch into sugars?)
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I just think it's silly.  In my old city, we had a radical "save the seeds!" group.  I suppose it could be important and it won't hurt, but we're nowhere near a crisis and I doubt there would be much use for any seeds that would be saved.\n\nOh well.  At least it reminds me of Chrono Trigger.
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If you have diverticulitis you shouldn't eat tomato or\nany other kinds of seeds.
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I am going to have to go with Omega 3-6-9fish body oils. You need all 3 because they all provide different benefits. They are good for circulation, joints, skin and heart health.
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Try this:\n  \nhttp://www.jeffersoninstitute.org/pubs/sunflower_guide.pdf#search='sunflower%20crop'\n\nor this:\n\nhttp://www.sunflowernsa.com/uploads/cqr/cqr2000.PDF#search='sunflower%20crop'\n\n\nIt'd help to know where you're located.
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Seeds will definitely be in a fruit (as in all flowering plants). Seeds are in pods, about 3 inches or so long; for growing from seed, allow pods to dry on plant and break open to collect seeds. Seeds are numerous, light brown with darker ovate embryo in center, in 6 rows in the pod, wedge-shaped with a rough surface. There is a poor pic of open fruits and seeds at the second link.\n\nTo get seed to set, you might have to hand pollinate. The pollen is brightly colored and will stain clothing, which is why the anthers are often removed if the flowers are cut and placed into a vase.