Flax Flax is grown on the Canadian prairies for linseed oil, which is used as a drying oil in paints and varnishes and in products such as linoleum and printing inks. Linseed meal, the byproduct of producing linseed oil from flax seeds, is used to feed livestock. It is a protein-rich feed for ruminants, rabbits, and fish. Flaxseeds occur in two basic varieties/colors: brown and yellow (golden linseeds). Most types of these basic varieties have similar nutritional characteristics and equal numbers of short-chain omega-3 fatty acids. The exception is a type of yellow flax called solin (trade name "Linola"), which has
The Seeds of Doom The Seeds of Doom The Seeds of Doom is the sixth and final serial of the 13th season of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 31 January to 6 March 1976. The serial is set in Antarctica and England. In the serial, the plant collector Harrison Chase (Tony Beckley) seeks to retrieve a malignant alien plant called a Krynoid for himself. In Antarctica, British scientists Charles Winlett and Derek Moberley discover a pod buried in the permafrost and take it back to their camp. John Stevenson, the