enhancement of soil fertility and plant nutrition

... nodulation, and nitrogen fixation of soybeans grown under acid and saline conditions Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 41(4):721–728 Manios, V.I and E Kapetanios 1992 Effect of town refuse compost as soil ... Modification of pH The addition of compost to soil may modify the pH of the blended soil Depending on the pH of the compost and of the native soil, compost addition may raise or lower the soil/ compost ... that soil organisms play in the health and success of their landscapes E Reduced Incidence of Soil- Borne Diseases Incidence of soil- borne diseases on many plants may be influenced by the level and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 06:22

... Structural comparison of four representatives of class I of the superfamily of bacterial, fungal, and plant peroxidases (A) N-terminal domain and (B) C-terminal domain of catalase–peroxidase ... [12], and thus the role of the corresponding part of the gene is also unknown These gene fusions together with single-copy genes of APXs and CCPs are ideal for investigating the evolution of a ... relationships Both codon usage bias of analysed sequences ranging from archaea to higher plants and the presence of introns in only some of the members analyzed (plant APXs) can cause serious problems...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... influence of nociception on the beating rate of CM measured on day of culture without and with pretreatment with either 0.2 lM of I or II on day and after seeding The basal beating rate of the CM ... FACS and CLSM by providing absolute quantitation of internalized PNA CLSM revealed extensive fluorescence in the cytosol and nucleus of CM and CHO cells after exposure to both the naked PNA I and ... involvement of nonendocytic mechanisms (Fig 3) On the other hand, energy-dependent and -independent mechanisms contributed differently to the cellular uptake of the naked PNA and of the conjugate...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of British Columbia and Yukon and Alzheimer's Society of Canada (to JGM) and a doctoral research award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (to HBC) ... lane 5) It was of interest to compare PAF as an inducer of microglial IL-6 to that of LPS (lipopolysaccharide) a potent inflammatory stimulus of cells The results of exposure of human microglia ... application of PAF in Ca2+-free PSS eliminated expression of IL-6 (n = 3) Although LPS was not the subject of this study, the decrease in LPS induction of IL-6 with SKF96365 is of interest and is...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... A chrono-sequence of three mono-specic plantations, aged 20, 40 and 60 in 1992, was selected to represent the dynamics of development of the older stand One plot of 0.5 per stand was continuously ... scenarios and 2) (Tab VIIB) In relative values, at 120 cm, it represented a change of 64, +12, and 18 % for N, K, Ca and Mg respectively for scenario and of 59, +29, +5 and % for N, K, Ca and Mg ... times for N, and times for K, Ca and Mg) but rather low in absolute value (15 kg of N, kg of K, 4.4 kg of Ca and 1.8 kg of Mg for the less conservative scenario) Extra drainage of Al was about...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... siRNA knockdown of PAK2 inhibited NFAT activation both in the presence and absence of Nef, and expression of a dominant-negative PAK2 mutant abrogated Nef-mediated enhancement of CD25 expression ... Nef-mediated enhancement of replication (p = 0.67) Therefore, increased CD25 MFI after days of stimulation, rather than the % of CD25+ cells, was the best predictor of peak levels of viral replication and ... involve upregulation of tat-SF1, U1 SNRNP, and IRF-2 mRNAs [59] and enhancement of NFAT activity [20,23], thereby increasing the amount of viral particles produced per cell As we and others have demonstrated,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:21

... day 12 p.i for CD3 and CD8 and analyzed in flow cytometry to assess numbers of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells (B) CD4/CD8 ratios of infected cultures were calculated, and the percentage of CD4 T lymphocyte ... this study; and the frequency of cell death in infected and bystander cells detected closely matched that of apoptotic cells detected by others [17] Although populations of apoptotic and/ or productively ... determined and used as measure of overall p24 production To determine the percentage of killed infected and non-infected bystander CD4+ T cells, four populations of CD4+ T lymphocytes were defined and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... standard curves generated with pGL3 luciferase plasmid in the range of 101 to 109 copies Reactions were performed in duplicate and the mean and standard deviation are indicated (), levels of ... in the preparation of the manuscript KBL coordinated the design and implementation of the study, the data analysis, and the preparation of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final ... under the control of the constitutive SNV promoter The vectors lack or contain SNV PCE and the CMV IE transcriptional enhancer and are designated U3-Luc, PCE-Luc, and IE-U3Luc and IE-PCE-Luc, respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:21

Ngày tải lên: 14/11/2014, 10:02

... comprehensive review and discussion of the: (1) severity and implications of soil erosion, (2) principles of management and conservation of soil and water resources, (3) impacts of water, wind and tillage ... factors and processes of erosion Chapter reviews the implications of soil erosion in the USA and the global hotspots and presents the state -of- knowledge of soil and water conservation research and ... conservationists and policymakers to facilitate understanding of principles of soil erosion and implementing strategic measures of soil conservation and management The contents of this textbook...

Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2015, 00:02

... proposed and carried out projects of studies on Phytophthora diseases such as quick and low death of black pepper, quick death of durian, bud root of pineapple, wilt death of litchi, downy mildew of ... and Sendall, B (2004), “Isolation of Phytophthora from infected Plant Tissue and soil, and Principles of Species Identification” In “Diversity and Management of Phytophthora in Southeast Asia”, ... isolation of Phytophthora on black pepper, this fungus has been isolated in several plants (Table 8) 3.2 Isolation of Phytophthora from soil and root of several crops Table Effect of rose petals...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 12:20

... to a yield method in the case of herbaceous plants and on the basis of measurements of tree stands and empirical formulas (Sulinski 1997; Weiner 2004) Biodiversity of comJ FOR SCI., 54, 2008 (12): ... both types of soils was characteristic of sandy soils with low organic matter decomposition rates (Kononowa 1968; Zier et al 1999) The ratio of C HA/C FA in the humus of successional soils also ... Shannon diversity index 'H' and abundance of species (number of species) in plant communities depending on the age and category of areas in the Szczakowa sand mine cast Age of areas (years) Shannon...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:22

... sandy soil was slightly more acid (pH = 3.9) than that of the sandy soil (pH = 4.4) Table 4.1: Initial soil carbon and texture of the experimental sites Parameters Sandy soil Crusted sandy soil ... soil textures (sandy soil and crusted sandy soil) The choice of organic materials used in this study was justified by the importance of these materials in the maintenance of soil fertility in Niger ... PRUNINGS AS SOURCE OF NUTRIENTS FOR SOIL FERTILITY IMPROVEMENT IN NIGER A Thesis presented to the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources,...

Ngày tải lên: 03/03/2016, 11:10

... Effect of applied rates of LOF on height of the plants 27 Figure 4.6 Effect of applied rates of LOF on the number of leaves 27 Figure 4.7 Effect of applied rates of LOF on fresh weight of ... 4.7 Effect of applied rates of LOF on fresh weight of the plants Figure 4.8 Effect of applied rates of LOF on dry weight of the plants The fresh and dry weight of the plants has no significant ... applied rates of LOF on height of the plants Figure 4.6 Effect of applied rates of LOF on the number of leaves The height of the plants showed the best results in treatments with an average of 19.9...

Ngày tải lên: 28/04/2016, 13:49

... Government, 2004) Points of Flow measurement and Water sampling OUTLINE OF SURVEY Soil Points of Soil sampling Akadama soil Water flow Pit sand 0.45m 5cm 3.5m 3.5m Experimental field and soil penetration ... Tank A consisted of Tank A Infiltrated two types of soil, cm deep Akadama soil in the top water layer and 40 cm deep pit sand in the bottom layer Tank B consisted of only pit sand Soil replacement ... data and actual measurement data of pollutant load in soil Gross water flow and gross pollutant load of road surface runoff, overflow water, flow into soil, infiltrated water and water held in soil...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... rates and bacterial growth in each sample for the analysis of the growth of tetracycline-resistant or tetracycline-degrading bacteria and the mechanism of tetracycline degradation MATERIALS AND ... Tahara M., Shimizu K and Nisimura T (2008) Monitoring of PPCPs in Aquatic Environments in Japan and Evaluation of Removal Efficiency on Assumption of Water Purification Process, J of Japan Society ... Kunikane S (2008) Occurrence and Removal of Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water Treatment Plants, J of Water and Waste, 50(7), 581-586 Simpson J M., Santo Domingo J W and Reasoner D J (2002) Microbial...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... Digestion Support Software, Cork Institute of Technology, 2007 [7] Barelli D., Csambalik L., Mestas C and Santos D Economical and Environmental Analysis of a Biogas Plant within the Context of a Real ... same cannot be said of the residential apartment of lecturers and other staff of the university Figure Feeds into the sewage treatment plant After the sewage enters the treatment plant, it goes through ... Journal of Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 1, Issue 6, 2010, pp.1009-1016 Figure Layout of KNUST sewage treatment plant Methodology Sample of the sewage from the PST was collected and analysed...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of the American College of Nutrition and Mature Medicine Canada He has served as a symposium editor for the Journal of Nutrition and the Journal of the ... nutritional care and education to cardiac and renal patients She is a member of The American Dietetic Association, the American College of Nutrition, and is current President of the Chicago Nutrition ... contributed only 9% of the total calories available Yet, these foods provided 73% of the calcium, 31% of the riboflavin, 33% of the phosphorus, 19% of the protein, 16% of the magnesium, 21% of the vitamin...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 16:20

... Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006 This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China’s child health and nutritional status using the China Health and Nutrition ... social and economic changes in both urban and rural China, and their effects on the economic, demographic, health, and nutritional status of the Chinese population The CHNS employs a multistage, random ... sets of variables in the multivariate analyses for child health and nutritional status,12 because of the simultaneity among contemporary food intake, health care use and child health and nutritional...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... length and angulation of the teeth, their relation with the upper and lower lips at rest and when the patient smiles, the phonetics and the Fig 15 xxx _ xxx I Fig 16_Pre-op photograph of patient’s ... resin mock-up (33.3 per cent), and before and after pictures of other patients (12.5 per cent) No patient indicated diagnostic wax-up as his or her preferred method of visualisation While computer-imaging ... shape on dry and unetched teeth without application of adhesive and is therefore fully reversible Direct mock-up with composite resin was also preferred by patients for visualisation of expected...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20