The plants' foundations have already been laid, their steel reinforcing bars pointing skyward, on a desolate landscape dominated by thatch-roofed huts and last season's cornfields.
And there is no agreement yet on apportioning the bills for the biggest-ticket items -- the roadways, air-cooling plant and foundation walls -- that serve all the users on the site, including about 250,000 square feet of underground retail space.
How about Beatrice Webb, who, together with her husband, planted the foundation of the modern-day welfare system?
Further experiments, such as the one presented here, on standing genetic variation in crop plants and foundation species can reveal the source populations and alleles that should be utilized and conserved to keep pace with future climate change.
Thin or spindly branches and stems make for a weak plant support foundation.
Although the scheme promised 90% efficiency using a vaguely defined "OxyNol" process, the firm has yet to lay the plant's foundations.
We're trying to plant some foundations so we don't say, Well, that was wrong,' when the next study comes along," he says.
In the process, they planted the foundations of the Byzantine successor states of Nicaea, Epirus and Trebizond.
Understanding the physiological and molecular mechanism of abiotic stress tolerance in plants is the foundation for developing stress tolerant plants.
Recent studies addressing these issues have shown that virus-based vectors can be efficiently used for high transient expression of foreign proteins in transfected plants and that non-Agrobacterium bacterial species can be used for the production of transgenic plants, laying the foundation for alternative tools for future plant biotechnology.
