Synopsis: Plants:


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which is a trade-off for having long narrow snouts that fit into the flowers in


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What's kind of reactions do you get from people regarding the idea of allowing customers to wheel around their weed supply?


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when it comes to the perennials and annuals we cultivate on our near-acre of New jersey property for nine months out of the year.

We actually only water new shrubs or plants that haven't established and stop short of sprinkling the lawn except on very rare occasions.


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but we make all of our paper products essentially out of cotton fiber. We're really not tied in with the tree side of paper-making;

They would give it back to the pulp and paper mill and those guys would mix it back in with their black liquor.


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stone fruits and citrus varieties, can now look at everything from unit costs and revenue for individual crop types to how many boxes per hour crews are harvesting.


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Our facility is going to be colocated with a pulp mill. Â There are over 500 pulp mills in this country

and they're on their back. We're focusing on three areas: pulp mills and ethanol plants in the Southeast, Northeast and Northwest,

The way we're going to cross the Valley of Death is co-locate with a pulp mill.


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cellulosic, sugarcane, grain (mostly corn from the U s.)600 more plants are needed in next decade.


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 Nowadays, a lot of people are repairing valuable broken porcelain with a resin that's almost impossible to detect at first.

or years later when the resin begins to change color that you can detect it Â


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and if you fertilize them there might be more blooms. SP: What about some of the more crazy schemes?


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and create a computerized model of the vines, figure out the canes'orientation and the location of buds all to decide which canes to cut down.

In Southern California, engineers with the Spanish company Agrobot are taking on the challenge by working with local growers to test a strawberry harvester.

The machine is equipped with 24 arms whose movement is directed through an optical sensor; it allows the robot to make a choice based on fruit color, quality and size.


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Unlike corn or even sugar ethanol, halophyte algae (algae that grow in saltwater) do not compete with food stocks for freshwater. oewhen the cost of pumping ocean water into so-called wasteland regions such as the Sahara

halophyte algae farmers could use solar-powered pumps to move water up from sea level or even up from underground aquifers such as the Nubian sandstone aquifer system that sits beneath desolate regions of Libya, Chad, and Sudan.


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genetically modified products including cotton and tobacco plants were produced. The success of the first tested genetically engineered cotton in 1990 led biotech company Monsanto to introduce herbicide-immune soybeans aka, oeround-Up Ready in 1995,

and the 2000 discovery that modification can enrich foods using nutrients and vitamins has made biotechnology a global giant in the world of food production


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The bacteria were able to swim towards roots, become absorbed by the roots, and then release hormones to stimulate growth.

Ed Yong also wrote about the conferenece. He said that synthetic biology is oegrander in scope than most genetic modification

which has heretofore been obtained from leaves of wormwood grown by African and Asian farmers. Re-engineered yeast can now do the job in vats,

so the farmers have lost their product. Along with that loss may come the loss of the plant diversity and a new, less desirable oemonotherapy drug.

The Guardian goes on to say that similar stories will soon be told for vanilla farmers, patchouli farmers, rubber producers, coconut farmers and saffron growers.


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