The name distichum refers to the two types of leaves the plant carries.

An advertising agency proposes to make genetically engineered animals and plants carry advertisements, and claims that this would be a very effective conservation strategy.

Foreign plants might carry disease that could wipe out entire species of the plants the Sylvans had come to depend on.

Every penny of value that Sporn and other old plants in its system carry on the utility's books, they say, is postconstruction expenditure.

The plants carry foreign genes taken from the viruses that confer protection against the disease.

Since most plants carry both male and female reproductive organs in their flowers, there is a high risk of self-pollination and thus inbreeding.

Both plants carry similar flowers, which form into windborne seeds.

Most plants carry both these within their flowers and rely on animals to transport the pollen from one to the stigma of another.

Researchers hope to create smaller plants by increasing the number of copies of the iaglu gene that a plant carries.

"That fact is this: we are dealing here with matters that originated and exist out-of-doors where plants and animals carry on their normal existence."