The use of wooden crates for composting a mixture of 70% grass, (Digitaria decumbens), and 30% coffee pulp, combined with 2% Ca(OH)(2), was studied as a method for preparing substrate for the cultivation of Pleurotus ostreatus. Crate composting considerably modified the temperature pattern of the substrate in process, as compared to pile composting, where lower temperatures and less homogeneous...

The uptake of mercury vapor by six gramineous plant species was compared under uniform conditions using a whole-plant chamber and (203)Hg-labeled mercury at a low atmospheric concentration. Mean Hg uptake by leaves of the C(3) species oats (Avena sativa), barley (Hordeum vulgare), and wheat (Triticum aestivum) was 5 times greater than that by leaves of the C(4) species corn (Zea mays), sorghum ...

Thirty-seven warm-season bermudagrass (Cynodon spp.) accessions, two cool-season grasses (Lolium perenne and Festuca arundinacea), 'Transvala' digitgrass (Digitaria decumbens), and Sorghum bicolor were evaluated to determine host suitability and susceptibility to the sting nematode, B. longicaudatus, in a 140-day microcell bioassay. All seven of the evaluated commercial cultivars of Cynodon wer...

The potential impact of herbicide utilization compel people to use new method of weed control. Selective herbicide application is optimal method to reduce herbicide usage while maintain weed control. The key of selective herbicide is how to discriminate weed exactly. The HIS color co-occurrence method (CCM) texture analysis techniques was used to extract four texture parameters: Angular second ...

I read with interest the recently published review article titled " The gluten-free diet: testing alternative cereals tolerated by celiac patients " by Comino et al. [1] in Nutrients. However, there is very sparse data on so-called minor cereals and no data on candidate wild graminoids, which have been gathered in the past. Availability of palatable gluten-free grain foods is expected to grow i...