Trametes hirsuta (GenBank Accession Number: AB429065.1), a basidiomycete fungus was used for the production of laccases using different carbon sources namely glucose, sawdust, rice bran and wheat bran. Use of organic medium (agricultural/industrial wastes) is aimed to bring down the cost of media. Among these four carbon sources, the best laccase production was obtained in sawdust followed by w...

The objective of this study was to compare an introduced warm-season perennial grass (plains bluestem, Bothriochloa ischaemum) to native tallgrass prairie for cow-calf production. Three systems were used, two based on tallgrass prairie with two different forms of protein supplementation and one based on plains bluestem as the primary forage. The systems were as follows: 1) native tallgrass prai...

a solid state fermentation method was used to utilize wheat straw as substrates for citric acid production by using aspergillus niger atcc 9142. the plackett burman design (pbd) of experiments was used to test the relative importance of the variables affecting production such as moisture content, age of spore, inoculum size, initial ph of substrate, methanol concentration, incubation temperatur...

It is widely considered that the continued development and production of Alberta’s oil sands deposits is on track to be the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada over the next few decades. As recent developments suggest, failure to address the issue of GHG emissions growth might jeopardize the potential for sustained expansion of oil sands operations in Alberta. Wit...

Crop simulation models are an essential tool for testing whether predicted global atmospheric changes are likely to have impact on food production. Any confidence in model predictions must be based on their ability successfully to predict performance in experiments. Accordingly, the predictions of three daily time step wheat simulation models (AFRCWHEAT2, FASSET and Sirius) were tested against ...

Bioplastics are considered a sustainable alternative to (partly) substitute fossil-based plastics. Nevertheless, it is still uncertain if the use of biomass for production bioplastics can mitigate environmental impact plastics and simultaneously provide economic benefits. An optimization model proposed design biobased supply chain networks that account (total costs) (greenhouse gas emissions) c...

A halotolerant fungal isolate Aspergillus tubingensis GR1 was isolated from the man-made solar saltern located at Khambhat, Gujarat, India, and identified using 28S rDNA partial genome sequencing. This isolate was studied for β-galactosidase production under solid state fermentation using wheat bran and deproteinized acid cheese whey. The influence of various agro-industrial wastes, nitrogen so...