Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AMESBURY,--Congressmen opposed to the opening of the Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant yesterday warned Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) officials they would face fierce resistance if they favored a plan to ease emergency evacuation safeguards...
...choose tobacco? Says Howell: "Tobacco is the laboratory rat of plant molecular biologists. It's a model system that we use in these sorts of experiments." Responding to orders from the firefly-virus gene, the plants dutifully produced their own luciferase...
...final step was to irrigate the plants with a solution containing luciferin, another substance found in fireflies, which must combine with luciferase, oxygen and adenosine triphosphate, a substance found in all cells, to produce the familiar luminescence. The plant's well-being is unaffected by the glow, which can be seen only with sensitive video equipment, photographic time exposures or eyes that have become accustomed to the dark...
Howell expects little outcry from anti-genetic-engineering activists about the plant experiments' danger to the environment. "At this time, this is only a laboratory creature. And plants don't fly or crawl across the floor or creep into mouseholes. You can set one down and be pretty sure that's where it's going to be when you look again...
...corporation but GM, perhaps, the cutbacks would have to be described as draconian. But the world's largest automaker has a total of 223 plants, which assembled some 9.3 million cars, trucks and buses last year. The facilities marked for closure produced roughly 600,000 cars and trucks for 1986, and include the company's oldest factory still in operation, a 67-year- old Cadillac Fleetwood plant in Detroit. As Smith pointed out, six new GM plants, in Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana and Louisiana (four open, one due to begin production next month and one scheduled for 1987), have replaced...