1.   As maggots, the flies live in plant tissue and produce a ball-like growth around themselves known as a gall.

2.   Brooks does not yet know how easy it will be to harvest usable gold from plant tissues.

3.   But the difficulties and costs involved in extracting and purifying these proteins from plant tissue has prevented the process from being adopted on a large scale.

4.   Plants can be started from cuttings because the plant tissue contains hormones that regulate growth.

5.   The enzyme controls nitrogen transfer across what is called the peribacteroid membrane, which keeps the bacteria separate from the plant tissue.

6.   The shell is fired into a screen covering the plant tissue in a petri dish, dispersing DNA.

7.   What happens in hardy plants, said Lowe, is that as the plant tissue cools, water moves out of the cells into the spaces between them.

8.   With the reporter gene, all the researchers have to do is apply a stain to the plant tissues, then look for parts that change color.

9.   It says the multi-dimensional databases will let researchers compile scientific conclusions from advanced microscopic images of human and plant tissues.

10.   The insects get their names from saw-like pincers with which females bore into plant tissue to lay their eggs.