Sentences with phrase «plant cover on»

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Reporting based on an entire harvest could be misleading, as unscrupulous companies could attempt to cover up for plants lost due to powdery mildew or other pests.

Rather, the board's official go - ahead will hinge on whether customers agree to sign long - term contracts covering 60 per cent of the plant's planned production.

But using the dirt - covered plants would be a food safety disaster — and turning the soil to harvest them would release carbon into the atmosphere, creating the kind of negative impact on the environment Brown is trying to offset.

This decision follows an announcement by Toshiba, owner of bankrupt Westinghouse, which was building the plants, that it would make a final payment to Santee Cooper and SCANA of $ 2 billion to cover its guarantees on the project, an amount significantly below the $ 11.4 billion required to complete the project.

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They work to secure media attention for their own work as well as for plant - based and cultured meat companies, and they have been covered in more than 480 scientific and mainstream media venues.16 Little is known about the impact of these interventions on public opinion, though it seems that raising public awareness of cultured products may be valuable, especially since the field is so new.

Forests predominated; plant cover was maintained on cultivated ground, thereby renewing its organic material and nutrients, or natural fertility; the climate contributed efficiently to agricultural yield, and the rivers and underground springs were plentiful and of excellent quality; the fauna was abundant (Espinoza, 168).

If the world continues to accept disappearing tree - cover, land degradation, the expansion of deserts, the loss of plant and animal species, air and water pollution, and the changing chemistry of the atmosphere it will also have to accept economic decline and social disintegration... such disintegration would bring human suffering on a scale that has no precedent...» 7

4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) 7c) green plant life appears on land (3rd day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions of years of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th day) 9c) God creates sea life including fish and birds (5th day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land animals)(6th day) 11c) God creates man.

Even though it flatly contradicts astronomy, geology and biology, Morris attempts to defend a literal reading of his textbook on the facts of nature: «The Bible teaches that the earth existed before the stars, that it was initially covered by water, that plant life preceded the sun, that the first animals created were the whales, that birds were made before insects, that man was made before woman.»

An outside organization would verify their performance on a variety of socially and environmentally responsible practices, ranging from installing solar panels, recycling corks, planting cover crops or reducing use of pesticides.

I have been dying to plant some apricot trees, but we are RIGHT on the line, where the trees will probably not freeze to death in the winter, but most summers the blossoms would probably succumb to frost: (But I just love them so much I'm pretty sure I'm going to plant some dwarfs near the house where they will be out of the frost pocket and where I can cover them if need be.

Each gardener will have to make the decision based on available materials, the amount of work involved in covering the plants, and the projected low temperature.

In addition to the full day Wednesday, Expo West's climate track included educational workshops on Friday and Saturday, covering packaging, agriculture, renewable energy and plant - based diets.

As farmers implement soil conservation practices, such as planting on contours and maintaining ground cover.

This covers research on improvement of rainfed lowland and irrigated rice varieties, plant pathology, entomology, soil science, agronomy, and farming systems.

If the problem is severe, you can sprinkle sevin dust on the tops and bottoms of the leaves, or make a fine - mesh screen to cover the plants, which is a pain but usually works.

Hundreds of new products, technology, machinery and equipment will be on display at foodpro, covering all aspects of the production line including processing, packaging, ingredients, plant equipment, science & technology.

Although Cajun territory is not large, and much can be seen in 3 to 5 days, all the attractions and restaurants can take months to cover and there are overlaps between the two (such as tours of the Konriko and Crystal Rice Plants or the Tabasco Factory and botanical gardens on Avery Island).

Be it manager Slaven Bilic who ended the deal or just a story planted by David Sullivan and David Gold to cover their tails on another failed transfer doesn't matter.

I'll keep the cover on until the plants flower, then pull it back for pollination.

Walk on trails to experience varieties in terrain, observe erosion and discover two methods used to slow erosion; play an active game that simulates water flowing downhill and how plant cover reduces erosion; and work as a team to create a model that maps the shapes and types of landforms and bodies of water at Moose Hill.

As I continue covering the import side of the business, I look forward to building on that knowledge base through conversations with industry officials and future overseas plant tours.

Off - topic questions covered Governor Cuomo's efforts at closing the Indian Point nuclear power plant, NYPD Commissioner Bratton's recent statements on the need for additional police officers for anti-terror efforts and the closing of a specific health clinic in Chelsea.

Privacy flaps cover the heavy duty zippers, and you can peek in on your plant babies through the viewing window.

The optics are designed to cover 120 degrees for full coverage of your tank.The grow light casts a bluish tone due to the white LEDs on the Kelvin scale, but it's the other LEDs that really «feed» your plants!

No doubt some dinosaurs, weighing several dozen metric tons, could not lie on their eggs to incubate them, but they may have used other external heat sources, for example by covering their clutch with a mound of plant matter, which would have provided heat as it decomposed.

to traverse the snow - covered roads, and making a direct assault at the plant's front gates, the Norwegians would rely on an alternate strategy.

COOLER CONDITIONING: On a sunny, 80 - degree - Fahrenheit day, a tar or black - painted roof can reach 180 degrees F; a white roof 120 degrees; and a plant - covered roof 85 degrees.

Ground cover, shrubs and other flora planted across a building's roof can reduce storm water runoff, easing the burden on local sewers and water treatment systems.

Issued last March to researchers at a little - known cotton seed company called Delta & Pine Land (D&PL) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the patent covers a technique for transferring three genes along with their genetic on switches into the seeds of genetically improved plants.

But the study went a step further, comparing crop yields on conventional farms to those on organic farms where cover crops were planted and crops were rotated to build soil health.

For white tea, the little buds that form on the plant are covered with silver hairs that give the young leaves a white appearance.

Note the bright veneer inside the grave on the right, partially covered by green plants.

Nor are there any limitations on the raw materials of the Calera cement: Seawater containing billions of tons of calcium and magnesium covers 70 percent of the planet and the 2,775 power plants in the U.S. alone pumped out 2.5 billion metric tons of CO2 in 2006.

Since the biomarker groups they investigated are based on algae — i.e., on plants that require light for photosynthesis — the absence of both groups is an important indicator of a very thick and largely contiguous ice cover.

Ford Motor Company gave him $ 2 billion in 1999, with which he transformed the company's ancient Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan, into an icon of green design, complete with the largest living roof on the planet: a 10.4 - acre assembly - plant roof blanketed with sedum, a drought - resistant ground cover.

In the second week of November, central Indiana is a patchwork of tawny and black: here a field covered with a stubble of dried corn and soybean plants; a little farther on, bare earth where the farmer has plowed under the residue of last summer's crop.

«Because these plants are photosynthetic, it's not surprising to find that as the amount of sea ice cover declined, the amount of [photosynthesis] increased,» says biological oceanographer Kevin Arrigo of Stanford University's School of Earth Sciences, who led an effort to use the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) devices on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites to determine changes in phytoplankton growth.

The research recently appeared in the journal Industrial Crops and Products and on the front cover of the Plant Biotechnology Journal.

The team raised caterpillars on beach plants called sand verbenas (Abronia latifolia), which were either sand - covered or «clean».

These qualities of the plant in turn, in one area of production, depend on weather conditions, such as cloud cover, temperature and rainfall to which the plant is subjected, particularly during the grape period (March to September).

The team's statistical analyses considered nearly 358,896 pairs of organisms in 80 plant or mammal communities on different continents, with data sets that collectively covered the last 300 million years of earth history — including data sets that spanned the huge Permian - Triassic extinction (the «Great Dying» 252 million years ago), the Cretaceous - Paleogene extinction of the dinosaurs (66 million years ago), and a period of rapid global climate change around 56 million years ago.

Cover Image: Scouting on the Tigris River: A British recoinnoitering party gliding at express train speed in a hydroplane fitted with an aeroplane plant.

Some recent papers «communicated» to PNAS include work on the effect of testosterone on financial decisions by men and women; on the proper DNA «barcode» for identifying plants; and a cover story on the separation and divergence of different lineages of the coast horned lizard.

Hand - collected pollen of two plant species was used to exclude differences in the safe sites» distribution or area on the bees» body due to different structure of pollen grains: spiny and pollenkitt - covered pollen of insect - pollinated sunflowers, Helianthus annuus L., Asteraceae (collected at the farm «Gut zur Linden», Wuppertal, Germany), and smooth, wind - distributed pollen of pines, Pinus sylvestris L., Pinaceae [1,43](collected at the Botanical Garden HHU, Düsseldorf), respectively.

Deceived by the Justice Department's cover - up, relying on false assurances that Rocky Flats wasn't as contaminated as everyone had thought, public officials now plan to open the former nuclear weapons plant to recreation.

This Focus Issue on Biotic Stress will showcase Update reviews on recent advances in the field and primary research articles covering all research areas on plant host interactions with pathogens and pests.

Phys.org covers the new achievement by Mukhopdhyay's Lab on the engineering of a strain of bacteria that enables a «one - pot» method for producing advanced biofuels from a slurry of pre-treated plant material.

On the 14 December 1911, explorer Roald Amundsen and his team planted the Norwegian flag on the snow - covered South PolOn the 14 December 1911, explorer Roald Amundsen and his team planted the Norwegian flag on the snow - covered South Polon the snow - covered South Pole.