The effects of such plants, "dotted through," she adds, is to make the borders airier.
Controlling the spread of such plants could prove difficult, the experts said, producing "greater financial losses than gains".
They will not have expected a succession of such plants to be under consideration, however.
Extending the operation of such plants could require costly improvements to comply with the latest environmental regulations.
The country's plant life is characterized mainly as tundra vegetation and consists of such plants as sedge and cotton grass.
And if Iran had a string of such plants, it would be able to fuel a small arsenal quickly enough to reduce greatly the chance of getting caught.
We are only beginning to understand the value of such plants – for example, it is thought that tree lungwort contains properties that may have potential to cure BSE.
Europe is pursuing a suite of such plants, including one in China, but also well behind the necessary pace, several experts said.
"The U.S. is looking at the use of such plants to generate electricity for their military base in Guam and Diego Garcia, for example.
Examples among the higher plants are numerous; while many of the transfers of such plants have been benign and some clearly advantageous, others have been disastrous.
Runners are thin surface stems characteristic of such plants as strawberries; new plants may form on the runner as it spreads along the ground.
