Now all processes are being brought into a plant in Columbia, Mo.
It explains how one could theoretically turn the offspring of a wild, berry-size tomato into a plant bearing full-size tomatoes just by tinkering with one gene.
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.
The chances of a seed sprouting into a worthwhile plant are the same as those of winning the lottery, says Mr. Klug of Pink House Blooms.
We also checked out a new ultracapacitor that can charge a power drill in 60 seconds, and researchers are working on energy-generating fabrics that can transform your t-shirt into a power plant.
So, it's okay to burn two units of natural gas in Qatar to make one appear in Texas, or to put 5 BTUs of coal into a power plant and have only 2 BTUs of electricity come out the other end.
Turning a C3 plant into a C4 one, though, is trickier than conferring flood resistance, since it involves wholesale changes in anatomy.
That makes them a dicey proposition in a fast-moving energy market like Britain's, where changes in spot power prices can transform a profitable plant into a loss-making one overnight.
Since 1999 the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has charged the company with a number of violations, including releasing too much ammonia from its processing plant into a Chesapeake Bay tributary.
It is converting a fermentation plant in Florida into a test facility to see if what works in the laboratory will work at scale.
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He decided to upgrade a proposed wastewater treatment plant for Omega into a grander project that could have an impact far beyond the Rhinebeck campus.
It used to be impossible economically to break down the inedible part of a plant, like a used corncob and other parts of a plant, into cheap, usable sugars to get ethanol at an economic price.
In New Zealand Scion Research works to convert the waste stream from pulp and paper processing into a blend of microbial cell wall debris and plastic called polyhydroxyalkanoate, or PHA. Plant a PHA flower pot into the ground and and it biodegrades.
The oil goes into a de-gasification plant, and then four-fifths of it is stored for export.
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For that, aluminum tubes were inserted from the street and a special chemical solution was poured into the ground and cooled by a refrigeration plant.
Nearly half that sum is being spent to transform a million-square-foot former Ericsson plant bordering the campus into a new law school and a larger site for the church.
Slovakia finally found a good delivery from Sestak on the right, the Bochum winger whipping a cross in from deep for Vittek to plant a perfect header into the bottom corner.
Even though the pumps were not essential since the plant is in a scheduled refueling shut down, and plant operators even moved a portable pump into the threatened building in case the regular pump had been submerged, the sense was that things were amiss.
This is a tale of two editorials today: one in Utah, lambasting a lawmaker for trying to sneak a price hike into energy bills to pay for a proposed nuclear plant, and one in Florida, demanding the repeal of just such a price hike, which has collected hundreds of millions from ratepayers for nuclear plants that may never be built.
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Other times the attacks are more personal:In 2000 a discontented consultant, rejected for a job at a water treatment plant in Australia, remotely hacked into a sewage treatment system and released 264, 000 gallons of raw sewage into rivers and parks.
The Tides Restaurant, where much avian-caused havoc occurs, is still there but has been transmogrified since 1962 into a vast tourist-processing plant - no iota of the charming seaside restaurant of the movie remains.
Virent Energy Systems has built a demonstration plant that can turn beet sugar into gasoline at a rate of 10, 000 gallons per year.
In this process a piece of tissue is cut from a healthy plant and grown in a sterile environment into several plantlets that root in pasteurized soil before being transferred to the field.
This provides ammunition to recommend an unpopular or risky decision to the board (expansion into a new business line or geography, or shutting down a plant).
Gradually, the mound gets larger, kills the plant, develops into a dune, and roams the desert for eternity.
Plans to build a 40 mile (64km) pipeline to carry water from a Dorset treatment plant into Wiltshire have been approved by Wiltshire Council.
Absenteeism is down and productivity is up at the two plants where the new work schedule has gone into effect. (A third plant will be converted early next year.) The economy benefits, too: With its more intensive use of machinery, IEC has added 950 workers, and product is being shipped out the door faster.
It was Edison's financial clerk, Samuel Insull, who thought of creating a central plant that powers an entire region, turning electricity into a utility and vastly dropping its price.
So thinking in terms of a materials platform, Coke created the fully recyclable plant bottle that could be cycled back into a new container.
Gotfod gestures into the distance, pointing to a windswept plant, called Welwitschia mirabilis.
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