1.   Before such pests can be released in test plots, however, they must pass stringent laboratory tests to be sure the control agents will not become pests themselves.

2.   Activists in the United States have demonstrated and vandalized test plots of everything from golf course grass to sugar beets.

3.   But activists are already sabotaging test plots in protest.

4.   Field test plots reveal that the fungus is highly effective in controlling this weed, Boyette explained.

5.   In Idaho, vandals entered the test plots of Seminis Inc. and ripped out the pea plants.

6.   Last summer, biotechnology protesters trashed experimental plant test plots at Berkeley, even though most of the research did not involve genetic engineering.

7.   Most species, in fact, avoided test plots where researchers had removed all of the fruit.

8.   The bill calls for test plots, which would be monitored by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

9.   They walked along a trail, listening to restoration ecologist Mark Simmons explain the effects of controlled burns on acres of test plots.

10.   USDA researchers working test plots in Salinas believe a compost mixed with plastic mulch, beneficial microorganisms and corn gluten might offer a solution.