They're people, so you can't just have a set regimen like in a plant setting," she said.
The company, bankrupt with debts of more than $10 billion, sought to make itself attractive to potential buyers last month by dismissing 1,750 workers from a plant, setting off protests that appeared to have faded yesterday.
The life history of a plant sets constraints on the strategies that can be applied, and aspen has several disadvantages compared to Arabidopsis in this respect.
A Compartamos manager, Claudia Ayala, began with a pep talk, pointing to a house plant set on a chair beside her.
It is used for cooking, as bath salt, as brine and as a raw material for many industries, including a soda ash plant set up by AkzoNobel in 1940.
A new pulp plant, set to break ground this summer in Washington State, will process alternative materials including bamboo, miscanthus and wheat straw, for sale to paper-product makers.
According to a study, a 500 MW wave power plant set up in Oregon would entail a combined construction cost estimate of about $750,000/MW [36].
It is easy to imagine a situation some thousand years ago when an errant lightning bolt struck a tobacco plant, setting it afire.
Large solar thermal power plants have yet to be set up in India, but a calculation of its production cost, based on the technical specifications of the Gemasolar plant, shows that despite India's prohibitively high interest rates, a clone of the plant set up in the Rajasthan desert would be able to provide power at about the same price.
