Spatial Data Objects. The geometry and geography data types support sixteen spatial data objects, or instance types. However, only eleven of these instance types are instantiable; you can create and work with these instances (or instantiate them) in a database.
Rewiring the grain. Metabolic engineering. Golden Rice technology is based on the simple principle that rice plants possess the whole machinery to synthesise Î²-carotene, and while this machinery is fully active in leaves, parts of it are turned off in the grain.
The Golden Triangle. T he term  Golden Triangle  refers to the border regions between Thailand, Burma and Laos and when gold was used by Chinese traders to pay for opium grown there. W ithin Southeast Asia the term is synonymous with the opium and heroin trade.T he history of the opium poppy in the Golden Triangle can be traced back to various Chinese migrant groups for whom the poppy was an integral part of their cultural traditions. he governments in the  Golden Triangle  have dealt with the problem of poppy production with differing levels of intensity. In Thailand the cultivation of poppies is illegal and in the Northern provinces they have been very effective in limiting cultivation.