My immobility was complete, as if tendrils of myself had burrowed down and sought root in the soil of Japan, rendering me brainless vegetation.
Embrapa scientists also bred varieties of rhizobium, a bacterium that helps fix nitrogen in legumes and which works especially well in the soil of the cerrado, reducing the need for fertilisers.
When the yet-to-be-hired Knight-sponsored fellows have wrapped up their investigations and sit down to draw up those best practices, will they conclude that most of what the Tribune has accomplished can be exported, or is it a flower that can only thrive in the soil of the Lone Star state?
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But the real work of conservatives now is not at that superficial, topsoil level, it is in the deeper soil of policy and the tap root of values where conservatives need to toil now.
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Over a two-year experiment, we saw that there was a change in the soil structure as a result of a wetting and drying of the soil in clay-rich soils, and that can increase the amount of structure and hence storage of water.
Christoph Steiner, of the University of Georgia, reported that biochar produced from chicken litter could do the same in the sandy soil of Tifton in that state.
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The Internet dug its roots in the fertile soil of higher education, and as it grew, it changed college life forever.
Hope Group's root had sprouted in the stony soil of Xinjin, near the company's current headquarters on the outskirts of Chengdu.
The HighDro Power system works by harnessing the considerable energy from falling waste water in the soil pipes of high-rises, converting it to electricity.
Metagenomics takes another approach, basically putting an entire environment--the water in an ocean, the soil in a forest or the insides of an animal--into a DNA sequencer.
"The big barrier as far as bioenergy crops are concerned is a fear of the unknown in terms of soil carbon losses or gains - this is the gap we are trying to fill, " explained lead researcher Niall McNamara.
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They have already made common cause on land sales, shouting and singing patriotic songs in parliament in defence of the soil.
They will measure the amount of carbon, phosphate and nitrate in the soil, together with the rate of plant growth and microbial decomposition.
Beijing Times commentator Wang Yunfan says China does not wish to take on a role as the "world's police", but says that the trial and execution of the men on Chinese soil is "in line with the expectations of the absolute majority of citizens".
The label featured a rather ugly brown rock. (Silex is the type of soil found in the Dagueneau vineyards.) "It is kind of ugly, " I admitted.
The rise was helped, in part, by victory over Federer in the final of the ATP tournament on home soil in Halle last June.
This is thanks in part to the climate and in part to the soil, a mixture of limestone and clay and thousands of fossilized oyster shells (a wine snob could probably even name the type of oyster).
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The harvested by products that are genrally left behind by say grain combines play a very important part in the maintenance of soil nutrition.
Published in the online version of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the report said soil management practices in the region's corn and soybean fields are partly to blame.
In its report to its Board of Governors, the IAEA stated that in analyzing soil samples from the bombed installation, its inspectors discovered traces of uranium.
And still, the majority of terrorist plots uncovered in the past few years on US soil were the work of US citizens.
To encourage such developments the project's partners are trying to identify how the potency of herbs varies with exposure to the sun, the type of soil in which they are grown, and when and how they are harvested.
"Some 45, 000 square kilometers in Western Europe have measurable levels of radioactivity in the soil from Chernobyl above the criterion applied in the former Soviet Union to designate 'contaminated' areas, " said UNSCEAR Secretary Malcolm Crick.
At 40ft (12m), the site is believed to be one of the deepest archaeological digs in London, and the team have removed 3, 500 tonnes of soil in six months.
When England won the World Cup on home soil in 1966 most of the flags being waved in the crowd were Union flags rather than St George's crosses - a tradition which remained in place by the time England made the semi-finals in Italy in 1990.
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And although I have come here in search of the red plenty of the soil and its produce, I realise that the journey has led me also to the green that Juan talked about: the herbs inside this bottle have given the liquid the exact mossy-yellow colour of the pine forests and vineyards that surround us.
He said the floodwater had deposited a bank of soil in the channels they had built to take water away from the turbine and back into the River Rea.
Each section of the roof will contain different levels of soil that will aid the Bureau of Environmental Services in determining which is best to reduce stormwater runoff during a three-year performance study.
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The soil in this part of the Kuwaiti desert was as soft as a New York sidewalk.
Variations in the sogginess of the soil or the saltiness of the oceans will modify this signal.
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