Both had recently invested millions of dollars in plant acquisitions or expansions in Mexico, one of the world's largest soft drink markets.
Mr. Watson said in an interview earlier this year that a string of power plant acquisitions had kept his company diversified and balanced.
This is the third power-plant acquisition by the Dynegy-NRG Energy joint venture.
It is well established that many rhizosphere microorganisms can stimulate plant P acquisition (reviewed by Richardson et al., 2011) and Zn acquisition (e.g. Tariq et al., 2007) under laboratory and glasshouse conditions, but their contribution to plant nutrition in the field is somewhat inconsistent (Lucy et al., 2004).
As mycorrhizal types have been linked to plant nutritional acquisition strategies, soil properties, and nutrient cycling24,25, they provide a useful approach for an understanding of feedbacks at the ecosystem level.
In his speech yesterday, Mr. Palmisano placed many of the moves that had been made recently -- opening an advanced semiconductor plant, the acquisition of a string of software companies, the $3.5 billion purchase of PwC Consulting, and the new marketing campaign -- as all part of the on-demand computing strategy.
Sparks, EE; Benfey, PN, The contribution of root systems to plant nutrient acquisition, in Plant Macronutrient Use Efficiency: Molecular and Genomic Perspectives in Crop Plants (January, 2017), pp. 83-92, Elsevier [doi] [abs].
Plant P acquisition and uptake can be enhanced through rhizospheric activity, which is characterised by biological (microbial activity), chemical and spatial (root growth) features [10, 11].
