A Chitosan/sucrose/polyurethane composite bio-membrane was prepared by the facile drop coating method. The composite bio-membrane had a porous spongy structure composed of a physical mixing of each component. The water absorbability of the composite bio-membrane increased with increasing chitosan and sucrose contents. Furthermore, the composite bio-membrane with immobilized Aspergillus sojae ex...

rose flower (rosa hybrida) is appreciated for its beauty, fragrance and long period of flowering. to study the response of cut rose flower to bio-fertilizers, a factorial experiment was performed, with completely randomized design and four replications, in hydroponic greenhouse of alandasht, astane ghods garden, mashhad, iran, during 2009-2010. the first factor was six cultivars of rose flower ...

Liquid animal manure and its management contributes to environmental problems such as, global warming, acidification, and eutrophication. To address these environmental issues and their related costs manure processing technologies were developed. The objective here was to assess the environmental consequences of a new manure processing technology that separates manure into a solid and liquid fr...

Because of the high concentration of nutrients in human urine, its utilization as an organic fertilizer has been notable throughout history. However, the nitrogen compounds in urine are not stable. Therefore, to convert urine into a suitable fertilizer, it is important to stabilize and adjust unstable nitrogen compounds such as ammonia. Because nitrification can influence the nitrogen profile, ...

Barley (Hordeum vulgare, L.) is the fourth most important cereal crop in world. Salinity decreases productivity of plants grown under salinity conditions. It leads to deficiency and limited absorption water nutrients, ionic stress, oxidative osmotic imbalance. In saline soil, a field experiment was conducted verify effects nine combinations among three levels bio-fertilizers, i.e., control (wit...

This study compared the solar energy utilization of a closed microalgae-based bio-loop for energy efficient production of biogas with fertilizer recovery against that of a stand-alone photovoltaic (PV) system. The comparison was made from the perspective of broad life cycle assessment, simultaneously taking exergy to be the functional unit. The results indicated that the bio-loop was more envir...

this fertility experiment was carried out using split plots based on a randomized complete block design of three replications in 2006 at sari agricultural sciences and natural resources university. the aim of the experiment was to investigate some macronutrient and micronutrient accumulation in leaves of different soybean cultivars as influenced by some organic fertilizer types and levels. main...

in order to investigation the effect of different fertilization treatments on nutrient and essential oil contents in dragonhead drug (dracocephalum moldavica l.), an experiment was conducted in the station of agricultural research in urmia on 2008. treatments (nitroxin, barvar phosphate biofertilizer, biosulfur, nitroxin+ barvar phosphate biofertilizer, barvar phosphate biofertilizer + biosulfu...