His company Cofactor Bio offers a sequencing service to complement its GeneLaser DNA Sequencing Kit, which includes reagents for amplifying target sequences, and DNA Barcoding Kit, for identifying the biological origin of samples (available in editions for fish, fungi, flower plants, and other organisms).

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And a couple of plants that didn't flower.

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His second was to go into his greenhouse, where the rosemary plants were in misty, lovely flower, and pull from somewhere the cruel adage that rosemary meant remembrance.

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Participants also ward off evil during the festival by bathing in flower-scented water, wearing five-colour silk, hanging plants such as moxa and calamus over their doors, and pasting paper cut-outs in their windows.

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But the plants the expedition began encountering were too scrawny and stressed to flower or bear coffee fruit.

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Like many orchids, the flower, dubbed Encyclia navarroi, is epiphytic, meaning it grows on other plants for support, but not for nutrients.

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On Andy Beauchamp's street in the notoriously irritable south London neighborhood of Peckham, for example, almost every single doorstep is dressed with flower-filled planters and over-flowing window boxes after Beauchamp decided one day to start sticking plants in front of his neighbors' homes.

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Bedding plants have been cut from the council budget to save money and have been replaced by meadow flower seeds.

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