Agarwood is a kind of important and precious traditional Chinese medicine. With the decreasing of natural agarwood, artificial cultivation has become more and more important in recent years. Quantifying the formation of agarwood is an essential work which could provide information for guiding cultivation and controlling quality. But people only can judge the amount of agarwood qualitatively by ...

Micro-algae have potential as sustainable sources of energy and products and alternative mode of agriculture. However, their mass cultivation is challenging due to low survival under harsh outdoor conditions and competition from other, undesired, species. Extremophilic micro-algae have a role to play by virtue of their ability to grow under acidic or alkaline pH, high temperature, light, CO2 le...

While many small dairy farms have shut down milk production, the livestock density and number of livestock farms have increased in certain regions in western and central Finland during recent decades. At present, most dairy farms prefer almost continuous grass cultivation to crop rotation with cereals and grasses. Consequently, slurry is spread onto fields of silage grass instead of using earli...

I n the early 2000s, the realization that a significant fraction of the so-called heterotrophic marine bacterioplankton is capable of phototrophy has challenged our views of the carbon and energy budgets in the oceans (1) and, consequently, the biosphere. Because of their widespread occurrence and high abundance, bacterioplankton represent large pools of major elements and are catalysts in many...

Japanese encephalitis is a major public health problem in South-East Asia and Western Pacific countries. The recombinant nonstructural 1 (rNS1) protein of Japanese encephalitis virus is a potential diagnostic as well as vaccine candidate. Developments of cost-effective and simple culture media as well as appropriate culture conditions are generally favourable for large-scale production of recom...

The effect of artesunate (ART) on the survival time of adult worm pairs of Schistosoma mansoni and on their egg output during in vitro culture was assessed. ART significantly decreased the survival time of both paired male and female worms at concentrations of 5, 10, 20 and 40 mg l- 1 during in vitro cultivation. An inhibitory effect of ART on the daily egg output of paired female worms during ...

Fungi form the biggest microbial biomass and are key drivers of hydrocarbon biodegradation. We here describe standard cultivation methods for fungi that use hydrocarbons either as sole carbon and energy source or co-metabolically degrade them. The methods include both liquid (Protocols 1 and 2) and solid-state cultivation approaches (Protocol 3) as well as a versatile protocol to monitor fungal...

abstract this research was conducted in hamadan province for evaluation of potato cultivars reaction to cultivation date. this experiment was performed in split plot design based on randomized complete block in thee replication with two factors, containing, i. main plots are planting date including: 9 april, 25 april, 10may, 26may, 10 june, 26 june 2. and subplots are cultivar with three levels...