The royal couple toured the research plant in Dundee Road, Slough, and watched demonstrations, including the making of Maltesers.
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On Tuesday, the company said research labs and plant sites showed no major damage.
Food scientists have understood these distinctions for a decade thanks to traditional plant biotechnology research.
The Plant Genome Research Road Map, as it's called, was unveiled at the Indian Science Congress in Chandigarh.
Professor Asis Datta, director of the National Centre for Plant Genome Research, says more crops with enhanced nutrition are needed - and he believes industry will not provide them.
As plant genetics research advances, however, industry scientists hope that it will be possible to breed cottonseed that produces superior flour, high-quality lint, and oil, so that almost every ingredient in a birthday cake can be produced with the leftovers from Nelson's cotton production.
The cost cutting involves those 10, 000 job losses, two shuttered research sites and one manufacturing plant.
But now there's new research showing that this prairie plant might actually be a good source of ethanol.
"Complex colour patterns such as spots and stripes are common in nature but the way they are formed is poorly understood, " said Dr Kathy Schwinn of the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research.
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Lyons remains an important site for Nexans, both for its new research centre and a highly flexible manufacturing plant that can produce more than 2, 500 different types of cable.
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Put a 25 percent tax rate on individuals and corporations and see how it comes out in terms of personal consumption expenditures and corporate spending for plant and equipment, even research and development.
The company has also opened a manufacturing plant in Guangzhou, China and research facilities in Singapore and India for new nutritional products.
Sandals made from plant fibres found at the Arnold Research Cave in Missouri, US, pre-date the shoes from Areni by some 2, 000-2, 500 years.
According to plans released last month by the City of Cupertino, the campus, which will cover a 175-acre area, will also feature a separate corporate fitness center and a 1, 000-seat auditorium, along with an additional 300, 000 square feet of research facilities and a low-carbon central plant that will supply the majority of the power needed for the campus.
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The research will include looking at what happens to the plant's root systems when above ground growth is controlled.
Dr. Jensen's research may be the biggest beneficiary of the new plant.
In 2011 it opened a food processing plant in Anhui Province and built a research and development center and corporate offices in Shanghai.
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The cable also reveals that Imhausen is suspected of having defrauded the German government of research funds to support the second Libyan chemical weapons plant.
However, a wealth of academic research has shown that when a company opens a plant abroad, demand in its home country gets a boost too: sales by the parent company grow and jobs and exports at home tend to rise.
Three years ago, Ed Iles, from Essex, graduated with a 2:1 in plant science hoping for a career in scientific research.
The research team, led by synthetic biologist Omri Amirav-Drory and plant scientist Kyle Taylor, aims to transplant a bioluminescence gene into a small plant called Arabidopsis, a member of the mustard family.
To build the plant, Attero got tax breaks from the state government and research help from the local Indian Insittute of Technology.
The new manufacturing technique has been under development for two years and is still in a research facility, hidden among the grubby buildings of Pirelli's sprawling Bicocca plant on the outskirts of Milan.
Sabra has provided financial support for chickpea research at Virginia State University, and this spring, Virginia State recruited farmers to plant chickpeas in on-farm trials.
But scientists say it could take another 10 years of research and construction before the design is ready to be used in a nuclear power plant in the United States.
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Some argue that research and development costs are investments for the future, the same as a new plant, and ought to be capitalized as assets and written down over a period of time.
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Professor Michael Shaw, a plant health expert at the University of Reading, who was not involved in the research, said it was a step towards understanding why certain strains of the fungus cause disease while others are benign.
By tapping some 20 scientists at research centers across Europe, Statkraft eventually found a membrane that can work for a small-scale plant, though it's not quite enough for a larger operation.
Mr Cook, who lives opposite the former plant, said people would be "bitterly disappointed" if it was revealed that no further research had been undertaken.
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The aim is to start building a 90MW demonstration plant in Strasfurt, Germany, in 2013, says Peter Moser, the head of RWE's research arm.
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