food-plant

Barbara Kopple, who won Academy Awards in 1977 and 1991 for her nonfiction films about striking coal miners ("Harlan County USA") and food-plant employees ("American Dream"), respectively, suggested that the form has also benefited from a change in public perception.

Documentaries Take Lead Role Steve Dollar 2011

The White House proposes increased manufacturer user fees to pay for food-plant inspections and to speed the review of applications for generic drugs and biologics, drugs derived from living organisms that are the industry's fastest-growing segment.

Federal Workers, Regulations to Increase 2009

Traditional farming systems, which are associated with specific traditional crops, varieties and technologies, are being abandoned, also resulting in increasingly monotonous diets and the loss of food-plant resources and indigenous knowledge about them.

Chapter 4 1999

The book aims at helping the user appreciate the wealth of food-plant resources traditionally used in Kenya and how to recognize and utilize them for the well-being of society at large and particularly the local communities who are the custodians of the resources and information presented.

Chapter 2 1999

As already pointed out, this concentration on a few species has resulted in a vast number of potential food-plant species being neglected, genetic erosion and loss of associated indigenous knowledge.

Chapter 4 1999

I do not know the proper food-plant of the Mylitta (Tusser), but I have succeeded very well with it, as it is a more hardy species than the Atlas.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

Many butterfly pupæ are known to have the power of individual adjustment to the colours of the particular food-plant or other normal environment; and it is probable that the Australian _Papilio_ referred to by Darwin possesses this power.

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

It is possible that the choice of an improper food-plant may have as much to do with failures as the coldness and dampness of the English climate.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

"She was laying eggs on my food-plant!" cried the Princess.

The Garden of the Plynck Karle Wilson Baker 1919

Many butterfly pupae are known to have the power of individual adjustment to the colours of the particular food-plant or other normal environment; and it is probable that the Australian Papilio referred to by Darwin possesses this power.

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916