Sentences with phrase «test plot of»

While North Dakota's proposed rules would require farmers to secure a permit from the DEA before their licenses would become effective, there is precedent for this as the DEA permitted a test plot of industrial hemp in Hawaii from 1999 to 2003.

* EPA scientists find engineered genes in wild grasses 13 miles away from a test plot of genetically modified creeping bent grass.

Cultivate sorghum test plots of engineered and wild - type lines, collect initial phenotypic data, including lodging and pest susceptibility

Not exact matches

In Charlotte Simmons, one finds all the features that have made Wolfe one of the greatest contemporary North American novelists: a plot that drives at breakneck speed through a major culture - shaping institution, an array of flawed yet yearning characters tested to the limits of their endurance, and startlingly authentic dialogue.

It is one of few firms in the industry to have a doctor of agronomy as well as a master agronomist conducting field test plots throughout the country as a long - term investment.

While the first day was dedicated to updates by HIA national and chapter leadership, the next day entailed a bus field trip first to the University of Kentucky's nearby hemp test plots, where researchers gave poster presentations followed by lunch, and then to visit two companies heavily engaged in growing the hemp industry in KY, Atalo Holdings and GenCanna.

In 2012, at the Central Institute for Cotton Research in Nagpur, I saw a new variety of GM cotton carrying two so - called «stacked» Bt genes in one test plot, while a nearby plot was testing a variety of cotton using organic methods — for some farmers the premium prices for organic cotton make it worthwhile.

It is one of a few firms in the industry to have a doctor of agronomy as well as a master agronomist conducting field test plots throughout the country as a long - term investment.

Correction, Aug. 27, 2013: This article originally misstated the date of the attack on the golden rice test plot.

I have a dreamy plot afoot for a court test to be decided on Saturn wherein the Constitution and Bill of Rights would be made to apply to fish and mammals.

«It's a test plot because we're not sure which native species will do the best,» said Joe Benedict, director of environmental services.

Mr Clarke said the investigation of all the evidence available, some of which was from surveillance before the alleged plot was made public on August 10th, would take «many months» and involve thousands of forensic examinations such as DNA testing.

«But if you plot the same information as a function of the sample size, the datasets, in fact agree, and display the same general trend — the larger the indentation in the material tested, the weaker the olivine becomes.»

Thus far, no genetically modified animals have thrived in the wild — unlike some of the GMO plants that have spread beyond test plots.

Normally, Ortner said, farmers use about 200 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre, but now he's down to about 135 pounds per acre on the test plot.

Kaiser's research team planted corn of different relative maturities at test plots in Minnesota at different spring dates to simulate early, on - time and late planting.

Working with Christopher Webster, a Michigan Tech University professor and Purdue alumnus, Jenkins and then - master's student Lindsay Jenkins (no relation) tested the effectiveness of the hunting program by comparing the amount of plant cover in 108 plots in state parks and historically hunted areas with 1996 - 97 levels.

The researchers also tested their prediction models on the validation set, and this resulted in ROC (receiver operating characteristic) plot points with an AUC (area under the curve) of 91.6 percent for general responsiveness, 89.7 percent for TNFi response and 85.7 percent for rituximab response.

Among them: sizing up North Korea's nuclear tests, plotting the spread of radionuclides from the Fukushima nuclear accident, and tracking the spectacular Chelyabinsk meteorite as it broke up over Siberia in 2013.

After three years, it covered 95 percent of test plots.

Aaron Mali (front) and Oulu Coquie (back) till biosolids into test plots, one of the first steps in transforming a blighted area into a functioning ecosystem.

Bowman intentionally made mistakes on one test plot — «areas where we didn't apply enough nitrogen fertilizer, where we simulated mistakes in the applicator, where we shut the boom off for a short period of time or plugged it up and ran for a while,» Bowman said.

Researchers increased temperatures at the test plots by 3.4 degrees C, an increase that might happen by the end of the 21st century, and learned that plants grown and measured at those higher temperatures increased their leaf respiration by an average 5 percent, compared to plants in ambient temperatures.

This data produced a plot with a series of curves, each of which tracked how the organism changed in the size and number of units with age, enabling the researchers to produce a computer model to replicate growth in the organism and test previous hypotheses about where and how growth occurred.

Researchers tested the fungus — Verticillium nonalfalfae — by injecting it into tree - of - heaven, or Ailanthus, plots, according to Matthew Kasson, who recently received his doctorate in plant pathology and environmental microbiology from Penn State.

Additionally, we have further explored the original estimated data and the metastatic foci counts violate the normality and homoscedasticity assumption of the test used, as determined by the Shapiro — Wilk test (and Q — Q plots) and Levene's test.

Note: At the time of analysis, we will perform the Shapiro — Wilk test and generate a quantile — quantile (q — q) plot to assess the normality of the data and also perform Levene's test to assess homoscedasticity.

In 2012, at the Central Institute for Cotton Research in Nagpur, I saw a new variety of GM cotton carrying two so - called «stacked» Bt genes in one test plot, while a nearby plot was testing a variety of cotton using organic methods — for some farmers the premium prices for organic cotton make it worthwhile.

We compared the distribution of genetic load measures among individuals using QQ plots and Kolmogorov — Smirnov tests.

They examined the possibility of publication bias by constructing funnel plots and by Begg's and Egger's tests.

Most of the grains we are consuming now are likely tainted with GMOs in some way because Monsanto and other seed companies have test plots for these crops everywhere and contamination is eminent.

To plot a more direct course, you need only source the experience of those who have done it successfully — those who have tested and amended the journals, textbooks, and tactics that you've likely already tried.

After watching the first four episodes of the sixth season back - to - back — an endurance test I don't recommend — it's apparent Rescue Me is recycling plots.

With its lightweight puzzles and plot, The Turing Test is one of those «Great - For - An - Afternoon» games, the ones that scratch a specific itch and go down easy.

Family viewers expecting a wilderness endurance test won't be surprised by the sense of peril evoked by the cliffhanger plot nor the few profanities (plus one sexual expletive) that escape during tense times.

Most significantly it resurrected a plot development deep - sixed from the original test screening of the film.

With a ramshackle plot that appears to have been cooked up after drawing deep on the Dude's biggest bong, the film pinballs between awol movie stars, red - scare nightmares and Bikini Atoll bomb tests, while raising important questions of whether God is still angry («what, he got over it?»)

Language: English Genre: Adventure / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Rob Reiner Actors: River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Kiefer Sutherland Plot: A group of young friends go on a journey from their home town to try to discover the missing body of a young boy as they encounter real life problems - they put their maturity to the test.

Language: English Genre: Action / Thriller MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Sam Mendes Actors: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Rhys Ifans Plot: Loyalties will be tested as M finds herself at the mercy of part of her past she had thought was done for good.

Uncle Buck bears the unmistakable feeling of a series that was market - tested to death in every predictable plot turn.

Aside from a THX Optimizer test, the first disc features a commentary track from director Bigelow that begins promisingly enough with a tidbit about the six - month growing process of a stunt mosquito to insure its lack of contaminants but quickly devolves into long silences, plot regurgitation, and a mock - philosophical musing on the film.

Both the final test of loyalty and the last straw of the machinations of the plot come to a head in the climax which pits Stitch against his potential captors from home.

Director: Matt Reeves Cast: Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Kirk Acevedo and Toby Kebbell Plot: The apes encounter humans for the first time in two years, sparking a debate about their plan of action, putting Caesar's (Serkis) leadership to the test.

Following the same process, I think Mindhunters has the dumbest whodunit thriller plot and the least plausible moves of any film I can think of (no stars): FBI trainees are sent by a stern instructor to a remote island to test their reflexes and sleuthing powers when putting together psychological profiles, but then each of them in turn gets baroquely bumped off.

And, like all good trendsetters, it's stood the test of time, proving that a good twist can be an integral part of the plot, and not just a crappy gimmick.

The plot itself barely manages to pass the snicker test, especially since it smacks of Riddler's diabolical mind - control plot in Batman Forever.

The backstory, though, never quite gets filled out, and the plot serves as little more than a mechanism to test the efficient camaraderie of the Enterprise crew.

The plot of this film is supposed to be a remake of the vintage «Conquest of the Planet of the Apes», chronicling how Caesar became the first ape to talk through the study of genetic testing and experimentation, leading to the demise of humankind as we know it.

A genre film is more about how the film works within the rules of the genre, how it inverts them, and how the plot and style and overall human bits and pieces splash out onto the screen (more a more succinct Ebert quote, «It's not what the film is about, but how it is about it») and by that test, Kick - Ass is pretty damn successful in my book.

The report of the screen tests arrives soon after Fox demanded that many entertainment sites, including Spinoff Online, remove a purported plot synopsis that Trank had dismissed as false.