In the experimental plot, Dr. Meyer pointed out another stalk of cheatgrass, whose seedpods looked ghostly, almost translucent.
But he is hoping that a small experimental plot he just planted will hold the key to his staying on the farm.
For the Nature Geoscience study, Dial and his colleagues set up a large experimental plot on the same ice field, dividing it into thirty-metre squares.
What stopped the fire was an experimental plot that had been selectively logged to thin it, and had been burned in controlled fashion.
The Nantabu school's experimental plot of oil palm even helped create a local economy, a large plantation with jobs for impoverished villagers.
At the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, an experimental plot was in full flower on a recent February afternoon, as the thermometer edged toward 60.
It said other impacts would be limited because each experimental plot would be no larger than 20 acres and isolated from the others.
Before any transgenic trees can be planted outside an experimental plot, they have to be approved by three federal agencies: the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
The experimental plot consisted of 12 plants.
The experimental plot showed moderate beach-dune mobility and accretion.
Their protest plans for next weekend include destroying the experimental plot.
