"Growing plants is inherently cheaper, safer, friendly, acceptable to environmental agencies, " Raskin says.
They have demonstrated that, after five years of being plunged into liquid nitrogen, banana cell suspensions can be recovered and turned into growing plants.
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When coffee prices dip low, as they have this year, some farmers flirt with growing coca plants instead of coffee, especially in the Andean countries of South America.
Inside the greenhouse, lines of bright sodium lights shine down on the growing tomato plants, and the temperature remains a constant, warm 23C -- even in the depths of winter when outside temperatures drop well below freezing.
The farm is comprised of roughly 6, 000 plants growing in easily transportable black milk crates.
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Black polyethylene mulching involves the plants growing through holes in plastic sheets that cover the soil.
Over the past 20 years, some 1, 175 different kinds of banana have been carefully nurtured as tiny plants growing in test tubes.
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Although a woodland's area can be worked out from satellite photographs, that gives only a hazy idea of the mass of the plants growing there.
For example, the tilapia fish produce ammonia-based waste, which is sent through a biofilter before the nitrates are fed to plants growing in hydroponic beds.
The scientists say that growing especially inviting plants could be a way for people to help stem what has been called a "catastrophic" decline in UK bumblebee populations.
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When my family and I toed our way through the Boundary Waters of the northern reaches of Minnesota, my brother and I found a stand of pitcher plants growing out of a moldering mat of reeds and moss, and because of this book, I had the theory of ecological succession right in the front of my brain.
And it speeded up the plants' growing period, cutting between eight and 12 weeks off the usual life cycle.
Warmer temperatures are translating into longer growing seasons for all plants.
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Fitzhugh travels to Mongolia this summer to study a tribe of reindeer herders whose animals are growing hungry as the plants they depend on disappear.
Just this morning, there was a report about the growing trend of manufacturing plants returning to the United States from overseas, instead of the other way around.
He added a planter box to the window in the kitchen for growing herbs and other plants, lending the space some indoor greenery and giving the microunit dwellers access to some homegrown food without depending on the availability of a garden rooftop.
The company would also benefit if the growing interest in nuclear power plants in the U.S. comes to fruition.
Earlier this year researchers in New Zealand began investigating a psyllid infection in glasshouses growing tomatoes and peppers (plants closely related to potatoes).
Experts also found that corn plants near the hotspots were growing much slower than usual.
Growing AAA is labor intensive: The plants need daily watering, spraying and cutting back, producing a trash bag full of unwanted leaves each week for a small grow.
Warmer temperatures, we are told, mean longer growing seasons and longer pollen seasons for nuisance plants such as ragweed.
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However, since Brazil switched on more gas-fired thermal plants in October, to cope with growing demand and ease the pressure on the hydroelectric power system, costs have increased significantly.
The government is building out more coal power plants to provide electricity to a demanding and growing middle class.
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Wahaha has established its own production plants and processing factories in the major fruit growing areas to ensure the quality of juice products and a competitive retail price.
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By growing enough hybrids, however, Dr Kindiger produced a few plants that reverted to reproducing sexually.
That is not a completely fair comparison, of course, as growing algae is far more capital intensive, and requires the plants to be force-fed with CO2.
And although a growing nationwide movement in favor of nuclear power exists, no new plants have been announced since the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979.
By using cuttings and closely regulating how much light the plants get, indoor gardeners crush a normal five-month growing cycle into ten weeks.
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