Published in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
In order to enable timely actions to prevent major losses of crops caused by lack of nutrients and, hence, increase the potential yield throughout the growing season while at the same time prevent excess fertilization with detrimental environmental consequences, early, non-invasive, and on-site detection of nutrient deficiency is required. Current ...
Published in Journal of applied microbiology
The present study was performed to examine the role of pqqE inhabiting rhizobacteria in organic acid production and relationship of the organic acids with phosphate solubilization by the bacteria in vitro as well as in vivo. The pqqE gene was PCR amplified and sequenced in genomic DNA of Pantoea sp. WP-5 and Pseudomonas sp. NN-4. Nucleotide sequenc...
Published in Journal of Applied Animal Nutrition
Incremental levels of the phytase, OptiPhos® Plus, were fed to 150 weaned piglets (five treatments of 30 pigs) to determine the effect on piglet performance, nutrient digestibility and bone mineralisation. Piglets were fed a basal diet from four to six weeks and a pre-starter diet from six to ten weeks of age. The basal diets contained reduced dige...
Published in Journal of Clinical Medicine
Macronutrients and trace elements are important components of living tissues that have different metabolic properties and functions. Trace elements participate in the regulation of immunity through humoral and cellular mechanisms, nerve conduction, muscle spasms, membrane potential regulation as well as mitochondrial activity and enzymatic reaction...
Published in Frontiers in plant science
Understanding phosphate uptake and storage is interesting to optimize the plant performance to phosphorus fluctuations. Phytic acid (PA) is the major source of inorganic phosphorus (Pi) in plants. Genetic analyses of PA pathway transporter genes (BnMRP5) and their functional characterization might provide clues in better utilizing the available pho...
Although prescribed fire is a forest management tool annually applied to nearly one million hectares across the southeastern United States, little is known about how prescribed fire influences soil water quality in the region. Sub-surface pools of nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) are important indicators of ecosystem response to disturbance and are...
Constructed wetlands (CWs) represent a highly efficient, eco-friendly and economic alternative for wastewater treatment in decentralized contexts. The adequate selection of the plants used in CWs plays a decisive role in the successful implementation and operation of this technology type. In this work, we studied the behavior of a native tropical p...
Published in Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Layer structure in phosphidoaluminates and ‐gallates : The two new isotopic structures of Li3AlP2 and Li3GaP2 exhibit layers of corner‐ and edge‐sharing AlP4/GaP4 tetrahedra. The compounds are easily accessible through ball milling of the elements and are both semiconductors with a direct band gap of 3.1 and 2.8 eV, respectively.
The preservation of soils which provide many important services to society is a pressing global issue. This is particularly the case in countries like Tanzania, which will experience rapid population growth over coming decades. The country is also currently experiencing rapid land-use change and increasing intensification of its agricultural system...
Published in Chemelectrochem
The power of urine : Urine has unique characteristics that allow its extensive utilization in bioelectrochemical systems such as microbial fuel cell, microbial electrolysis cell, and bioelectroconcentration cell for electricity production, wastewater treatment, and nutrients recovery.
