Sophisticated plant breeding techniques have brought us blight-resistant potatoes and crops enriched with nutrients; flood-tolerant scuba rice that can survive under water for a fortnight or more; and drought-tolerant maize that increases yields by up to 30%.
Several other senior government officials said Monday that they were surprised by the news of the highly sophisticated plant, which Mr. Hecker described in a report as an "industrial-scale uranium enrichment facility with 2,000 centrifuges".
Robert Moses, asked by Gov. Lehman to look into the offer when it was made to the state, felt the place had too much sophisticated planting on it to make a very good part, but told Untermeyer that the state might consider it if Untermeyer would throw in an endowment fund of one million dollars.
These agroforestry systems vary from a simple system following selective cutting of forest trees, to a more sophisticated planting design.
Due to the great diversity and complex interactions of vegetation, soils, and climate on rangelands, process-based models designed to evaluate rangeland hydrology must include sophisticated plant and animal components that simulate changes in vegetation over space and through time.
How was it that our planet had emerged from a state of relative barrenness to host such sophisticated plant and animal life?
While farmers do pay a premium for more sophisticated plant technology, we've also seen prices of farm inputs increase due to the structural changes in the market.
It is remarkable that bacteria have evolved to deliver diverse virulence factors to defeat sophisticated plant defense systems [ 30, 32].
For example, even a sophisticated plant pathogen such as F. graminearum has an extended saprophytic growth phase during which it has to compete with soil microorganisms that will not play a role during the pathogenic phase.
