Sentence examples for plants and foreign from inspiring English sources

That has meant diplomatic recognition by the United States, building nuclear power plants and foreign aid in return for North Korea's abandoning its bomb program.

Since 1986 Data General has cut its workforce in half, to 8,500, selling off manufacturing plants and foreign operations.

We extracted altogether 1032 pairwise comparisons of the performance of local plants and foreign plants at a given site.

The criterion for including published studies in our meta-analysis was that they reported mean values, variance and sample sizes of performance of local plants and foreign plants at one or several sites.

As the 36-year productivity data indicated the existence of significant home-site advantages (Fig. 3E), comparisons of the performance of local plants and foreign plants transferred downslope could be used to predict the gap between the optimum and predicted performance under new climatic conditions.

The report warns that "gaps in biological and intelligence data on foreign-plant and foreign-animal pest and pathogens" and inadequate inspection at the nation's borders increase the chance that a terrorist armed with, say, foot-and-mouth virus or soybean rust could enter the country and deliberately spread diseases that could cripple the nation's livestock and plants.

The first sequence involves technology transfer from abroad through such formal mechanisms as FDI, the purchase of turnkey plants and machinery, foreign licenses (Flesh), and technical services (Hobday 1995; Kim and Dahlman 1992).

For complex multicellular eukaryotes such as plants and animals, foreign genes must be passed through specialized reproductive cells (germ lines) to be transmitted to offspring.

After centrifugation, the supernatant was directly used for DNA template for PCR, resulting in successful amplification for RAPD from various sources of plants and specific foreign genes from transgenic plants.

These results support the scenario that during parasitization nuclear genes can be transferred from hosts to parasitic plants, and the foreign genes may provide their new hosts with novel traits, which might be beneficial for adaptation.

I performed a reciprocal transplant of inbred and outbred plants grown in native and foreign planting sites to test the hypothesis that inbred immigrants had lower fitness.