Abstract Urea, an agricultural fertilizer, nourishes humanity. The century‐old Bosch–Meiser process provides the world's urea. It is multi‐step, consumes enormous amounts of non‐renewable energy, and has a large CO 2 footprint. Thus, developing eco‐friendly synthesis for urea priority. Herein we report single‐step Pd/LTA‐3A catalyzed from NH 3 under ambient conditions powered solely by solar en...

background & aim: nowadays, tendency to agricultural biotic product sustainable agriculture instead of chemical ‎fertilizers has been going up in all over the world. so, most pharmaceutical industries prefer to ‎use raw material which is produced from organic and stable system. producing organic ‎medicinal plants, such as peppermint, seems important in economical, ecological and ‎bio enviro...

Abstract In this study, an eco-friendly controlled release fertilizer cellulose-based hydrogel was prepared from cellulose fibers derived wastepaper, epichlorohydrin (ECH) as a crosslinker and carboxy methyl (CMC) gelling agent. A maximum swelling capacity of 2000% achieved for with optimum composition. The soil moisture contents in the presence optimized hydrogels were determined using digital...

Nitrogen fertilization is essential for optimizing crop yields and economic returns in irrigated cropping systems in the Central Great Plains area of the USA. However, N application generally increases the emissions of the potent greenhouse gas, N 2 O, from these systems. Nitrous oxide is produced through nitrifi cation and denitrifi cation processes in the soil. Agriculture contributes approxi...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of nitroxin biofertilizer and chemical fertilizer on the growth, yield, and essential oil composition of dill. The experiment was conducted under field condition in randomized complete block design with three replications and two factors. RESULTS The first factor was the concentrations of nitroxin biofertilizer (0%, 50%, and 100%) o...

Recent human population increase has been enabled by a massive expansion of global agricultural production. A key component of this "Green Revolution" has been application of inorganic fertilizers to produce and maintain high crop yields. However, the long-term sustainability of these practices is unclear given the eutrophying effects of fertilizer runoff as well as the reliance of fertilizer p...

The potential for non-point-source pollution of surface waters from agricultural lands continues to be a concern. Our objective was to determine the effect of surface residue management and fertilizer application timing in regards to soil moisture conditions on nutrient losses in runoff. Studies were conducted using a rainfall simulator that applied 125 mm h-1 for 3 h to an Austin (Udorthentic ...

This study aimed to analyze the ecotoxicity of nitrogen-, phosphorus-, and potassium-based compounds to organisms of two different trophic levels in order to compare the toxic effect between high-purity substances and these substances as components of fertilizers. Dilutions were made with the fertilizers' potassium chloride, potassium nitrate, superphosphate, urea, and their equivalent reagents...

It has been previously demonstrated with freeze-fracture electron microscopy that vasopressin induces specific structural alterations of the luminal membrane of granular cells from toad urinary bladder in a dose-dependent fashion. These alterations consist of aggregated intramembranous particles and are observed both in the presence and absence of an osmotic gradient. We examined the effect of ...