"It was somewhat surprising that we could detect the signature of legumes in plant tissue, " says Dr Eisenhauer.
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The area is rich in plant and animal life with over 38 threatened species of flora and fauna.
Unlike hedge funds, mutual funds and other financial investors, multinationals tend to invest directly in plant and equipment.
The friction in dealing with faraway Chinese factories, once ignored, is now a big consideration in plant-location decisions.
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The annualised figure was better than an earlier estimate of 0.1% growth, reflecting increased investments in plant and equipment.
Investing--whether in startups or in existing businesses, or in securities, or in plant and equipment or acquisitions--is risky enough.
But whereas the active ingredients in plant remedies can take years to identify, vitamins are much easier to investigate.
GM, the boom area in plant science, are not being created in Britain.
Investment in plant, equipment and other capital assets is growing at rates not seen since the runaway years of 1993-94.
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Three years ago, Ed Iles, from Essex, graduated with a 2:1 in plant science hoping for a career in scientific research.
And long-term foreign direct investment in plant and machinery, much of it linked to privatisation, is playing a more important role.
There is evidence that the minerals, vitamins and phytochemicals in plant foods could interact in ways that boost their individual anti-cancer effects.
But the big auto companies, saddled with huge labor commitments and billions invested in plant and equipment, can go only so fast in shedding factories.
Agriculture enjoys neither the profitability nor the investor interest of medicine, so the resources brought to bear on the Human Genome Project are scarce in plant genetics.
Six zones, including those in Liverpool and The Humber, have been given special treatment in the form of 100% tax relief for companies investing in plant and equipment.
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It ought to be poised for an export-led boom: it has a hugely competitive exchange rate, good infrastructure and has had a decade of high investment in plant and machinery.
Migratory caribou in low Arctic Greenland and elsewhere are declining in number as they have not been able to keep their calving season in synch with changes in plant growth.
D. in plant virology from the University of Bath in the U.K. in 1991, she tried various conventional hybridization techniques to outbreed the viruses that wipe out the otherwise drought-resistant and energy-rich tuber.
Investment across Scotland's farms in 2012 was higher than predicted at the start of the year. 45% invested in plant and equipment, after only 28% stated last year that they planned to do so.
In plant catalogues his name frequently comes up.
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Rosemary and John Nicholson were a middle-aged couple with an amateur interest in plant-hunters those obsessive gardeners who sailed the world from the early 17th century onwards, looking for exotic trees and shrubs to delight their sponsors, the owners of the great English gardens.
For example, in the ethanol business, it is almost inconceivable that there is any investment in plant or equipment whose return matches that from the political investment that has provided the industry a combination of direct subsidies, mandated use, and protection from foreign competitors.
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Our small and independent business owners want to see these cuts take place, they want to see a reversal in trend in Washington, and when they feel this trend has begun to reverse itself, they will begin to hire, invest in plant equipment and software and hardware.
The way it might work, for example, is that a business owner could borrow back (defer) a percentage of his or her tax bill with the requirement that at the end of the next tax year, proof be provided that the money was used to add employees or invest in plant and equipment.
Even though significant actions have already been taken to reduce surplus Ford assembly capacity with the removal of Scorpio in Cologne, majoring restructuring in Genk, the imminent transfer of Halewood to Jaguar and the closure of the Plonsk plant in Poland, the Minsk plant in Belarus and the sale of the Azambuja plant in Portugal, there remains a significant overcapacity problem.
The nappy mill at Calatayud in Spain, the toilet tissue plant in Alanno in Italy and the tissue plant at Klucze in Poland will all be sold.
Recently, Sisecam has bought factories in Russia and Georgia and invested in a plant in Bulgaria.
Boeing, for example, recently announced plans to cut its headcount in a plant in Texas, while Lockheed Martin has warned the fiscal cliff could cost the economy valuable jobs.
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Power shortages have become a major issue in Pakistan, with the government ordering an investigation into a nation-wide power cut on Sunday blamed on a technical fault in a plant in south-western Balochistan province.
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