“If they are able to find sperm in a frozen mammoth carcass, they will try to take the nucleus from mammoth sperm and use it to fertilize an elephant egg in vitro.”

“After adding organic compost to the soil, the gardeners hoped it would fertilize the plants and increase their fruit yield.”

“The soluble solids that come down in our water amount to enough parts per million to fertilize the soil.”

“After they have been planted for a week, fertilise with half-strength liquid fertiliser.”

“She carried heavy loads, moved rocks to reclaim the land, seaweed to fertilise the barren ground and turf from the bogs.”

“You also have the drone bee that doesn't do anything except fertilise the young queens.”

“In the meantime, Waitrose is selling a selenium enriched bread grown by a farmer in East Anglia who fertilises his soil with selenium.”

“The manure fertilises my small vegetable garden and pawpaw trees, whose fruit we mainly consume but occasionally sell.”

“The fires burn the top off the plant, helping it to grow faster, while the ash fertilises the nutrient-poor soil.”

“Depending upon which sperm fertilizes the egg, the resulting plant will be trisomic or monosomic for the translocated A region.”

“In S. typhle, females transfer eggs to a brood pouch under the male's tail, where he then fertilizes them.”

“Defecating its meal, the grizzly fertilizes the nitrogen-poor soil of the Douglas-fir forest.”

“Body protected by armour of bony plates, male carries fertilised eggs until they hatch into miniature adults.”

“They are a rare form of identical twins, which are created when a fertilised egg splits into two embryos.”

“Parsnips are root vegetables like carrots, but unlike carrots they do not resent being grown in soil that has been recently fertilised.”

“In spring, fertilized aphid eggs hatch under the bark of a cottonwood tree.”

“Wheat plants grown in limed and nonlimed soil fertilized with poultry ash or potassium phosphate produced similar yields.”

“Defoliation induced an increase in the number of resin droplets in the fertilized saplings.”

“While the floods are drowning crops and livestock, and damaging property, they are also fertilising the soil in the form of silt.”

“What we should see at this time of year are fields of maize about 1ft high and tractors fertilising the land.”

“It also saves you the trouble of trimming, fertilising and watering periodically.”

“Where bulbs are naturalized, avoid fertilizing in spring so the quick-growing grass plants don't overshadow the bulb leaves before dieback.”

“For instance, in the internally fertilizing guppy, Poecilia reticulata, multiple mating increases female fitness.”

“In the spring, his crew will be back on the fairways aerating, top dressing and fertilizing.”